Module MAU34900: Mathematics Education
- Credit weighting (ECTS)
- 10 credits
- Semester/term taught
- Michaelmas & Hilary Term 2019-20
- Contact Hours
- Initially 3 per week (including tutorials); later, time in classrooms (in school, college or adult education settings), together with some lectures / tutorials in College.
- Lecturers
- Prof. Elizabeth Oldham
- Learning Outcomes
- On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Describe and critique major theories about mathematics teaching and learning;
- Outline and critique the context, aims, learning outcomes, content, resource implications and assessment procedures of Irish school mathematics curricula, in the context of international developments.
- Identify and describe their own current beliefs about the nature of mathematics and their philosophies of mathematics education;
- Report on their classroom experience in the light of the theories and topics addressed: describing and analysing their own reactions to the classroom experience; describing the approaches to teaching and learning, and analyzing the student behaviours observed; and (in conjunction with this)
- Research and present a project on a topic that appears, or might appear, in mathematics curricula.
- Module Content
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- Introduction and overview.
- Attitudes to mathematics.
- Learning and teaching mathematics.
- Mathematics curricula.
- The nature of mathematics and philosophies of mathematics education.
- Module Prerequisite
- None
- Assessment Detail
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This module is assessed by means of coursework. There are three assignments: a mathematical autobiography (counting for 5% of the marks), a project related to mathematics curricula (60%) and a report on students’ classroom experience (30%). Additionally, tutorial exercises (5%) involve postings to the module’s discussion forum. Re-assessments if required will consist of 100% exam.