Course overview
This course will examine the importance of developing children's productive dispositions towards mathematics and how to develop children's capacity for thinking and working mathematically. Students will examine current research in mathematics education and how it can be applied to inform their planning and practice. Throughout the course, students will explore important pedagogical issues, including anticipating student responses, using multiple representations and differentiated learning. This course focuses on planning teaching and learning experiences of mathematics at a unit level that are informed by the Australian Curriculum including a focus on summative assessment.
- Maths Learning Design
- Mathematical Processes
- Numeracy And The Curriculum
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse how children develop mathematical concepts and the role of language in this process
- Effectively plan, implement, and evaluate sequences of learning in mathematics that support the participation and learning of all children with a particular emphasis on the mathematical processes and proficiencies
- Demonstrate capacity to use data and evidence of children’s thinking to inform teacher practice
- Develop, select, and use a range of resources, including digital resources, for teaching and assessing children’s mathematical understanding
- Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the effective teaching of numeracy, including the explicit teaching of mathematics and building fluency, understanding, problem-solving and reasoning
Degree list
The following degrees include this course