EDFS 6502 Secondary Mathematics Pedagogy

The purpose of this course is to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with content-specific knowledge, methods, and theoretical basis necessary for success in the secondary mathematics classroom. The course content emphasizes: teaching for conceptual understanding, problem solving, reasoning and sense making, proof, modeling, representations, mathematics as a coherent and connected subject, and technology integration. The course is also designed to help pre-service and in service teachers develop an understanding of how to use national and state mathematics standards in lesson planning, instruction, and assessment, and become aware of various teaching resources that are available to enrich math instruction.