Autumn Quarter, 2010; University of Washington, Seattle
TuTh 3:30-4:50 in MEB 246.
Lecturer:
Prof. Judith M. Arms
arms@math.washington.edu
For information about this course in other quarters, please contact
the Math Student Services Office, C-38 PDL, (206)543-6830.
If you are trying to add the course, please note: Keep trying! Usually several students who have signed up for this course drop it before or during the first week of classes, and everyone who really wants to take the course is able to get in. I will consider overloads, if necessary, for students who attend the first two classes and do the first assignments.
Textbook Information. Please buy the main text before the first class, and bring Chapter 1 to the first class.
We assume you are taking this course because you plan to be an elementary school teacher (or are seriously considering this). Elementary school mathematics is no longer considered just a collection of computational tools, but rather a rich body of intellectual content, focusing more on understanding, reasoning, and communication. Teaching this content requires a profound understanding of elementary mathematics. This course is designed to help you start developing this profound understanding.
The focus on understanding, reasoning, and communication makes class discussion and writing key components of the course. In particular, attendance at all of every (or almost every) class is required. If you will miss all or part of class on a regular basis, you should not take this course this quarter.
Note that this is a content course, not a methods course. While we will aim to model good teaching techniques, we will be addressing mainly questions of mathematical content, not methods for teaching elementary school students. If you enter the Masters in Teaching program, you will take a methods course on teaching mathematics in the College of Education.
This is a credit/no credit class. To receive credit for the course, you must have credit for every one of the components: Classwork, homework, reflection papers, a project, and quizzes and tests. More details of what is required for credit in each of these will be available shortly as links from the course homepage.
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Most recently updated on September 22, 2010.