EDU 312 Materials & Methods Teaching Mathematics I
This course is designed to help candidates understand the need for reform in mathematics education and to provide them with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help students develop mathematical understandings, reasoning processes, and relationships. Candidates plan activities that foster children’s understanding and use of patterns, quantities, and spatial relationships, using appropriate manipulatives and technology. Candidates also establish an understanding of the importance of motivating and managing students in mathematics classrooms. The focus of this course is grade cluster 1-5.