3 credits
Spring 2026 Distance Learning Upper Division
This course is designed to provide opportunities for mathematics educators to develop understanding of teaching and learning in the domain of number and operation. Central to this work is the construction of models of learners' understanding of number and operation and the use of those models to build and select curriculum. While curricular efforts have historically taken as central a formal view of mathematics and its construction, more recently curriculum has been written to engage learners and to build from knowledge of learner's understanding. In this course we will develop models of learner's understandings of different facets of number and operation and then use those models and our emerging understanding of curriculum to explore challenges in teaching and learning.
Learning Outcomes1Develop models of learner's understandings of number and operation.
2Use models of learner's understandings of number and operation to design and select appropriate and productive learning opportunities.
3Develop knowledge of key curricular development in mathematics education in the United States.
4Associate teaching and curriculum with understandings of number and operation they might generate.
5Use technology to support the development of ideas in number and operation.
6Synthesize existing research to support inquiry in the teaching and learning of number operation.
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