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Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
This course focuses on teaching mathematics in the elementary school, grades K-2, and encouraging children as mathematical problem posers. Students learn what it means to teach math interactionally using children's ideas, beliefs, and experiences as primary resources. Eliciting and interpreting children's mathematical thinking as well as mathematical reasoning, problem solving, communication, and connections are foci. Admission to Teacher Education required.
Learning Outcomes1Gain skill in assessing, evaluating, and responding to the diverse needs of K-2 learners in mathematics.
2Identify, practice, and reflect on strategies of teaching mathematics to support K-2 students conceptual and procedural knowledge.
3Analyze mathematics books and tasks for language demands, conceptual and procedural knowledge, and cross-curricular connections.
4Reflect on the role of K-2 teachers and children's funds of knowledge in relation to their learning of mathematics.
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