Fall, 2005 Course
Announcement
M175: SEMINAR FOR PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS
Unique Number:
58975
Instructor:
M. Smith
Intended audience:
Upper division (or graduate) students interested in teaching
mathematics in grades 6 - 12 or two-year college.
Prerequisite:
Interest in teaching mathematics, upper division (or graduate)
standing, and consent of instructor. (Instructor may be contacted
by email
or at 471-6142)
Time: Tu
5:00 – 6:00PM
Room: RLM
5.114
Topic:
Problems with a Point
Course description:
The Problems with a Point website
(http://www2.edc.org/MathProblems/),
a project of the Education
Development Center, provides carefully structured
sequences of problems for 6-12 mathematics "that develop new
mathematical ideas in the course of practicing old ones, … that
connect mathematical ideas, and … that develop deeper insight into
familiar ideas by revisiting them in unfamiliar ways." In this seminar
we will go through some of the problems from this site to build both
mathematical and pedagogical understanding of some topics in school
mathematics.
Course objectives:
• To become familiar with the Problems with a Point
website a source of class activities
• To deepen your understanding of some topics in
school mathematics
• To reflect on and discuss aspects of the content
(including habits of mind) of school mathematics.
Course format:
Students will take turns preparing and leading the class in problems
from the Problems with a Point website. We will spend class time
working on the problems and discussing them and the mathematics they
involve.
Grades:
Grades will be based on class participation and class presentations.
There will be no exams.