Teaching Primary Mathematics 1
PostgraduateTAS-EMT5212025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Teaching Primary Mathematics 1
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Articulate an understanding of mathematical knowledge and skills appropriate for primary teaching and communicate these in a scholarly and appropriate manner.
- Identify appropriate pedagogies for teaching and assessing mathematics, and apply these to practice.
- Plan for, and justify, appropriate mathematical teaching experiences in the domain of number that incorporate appropriate pedagogical principles.
- Evaluate and assess students mathematical thinking through analysing student work in the domain of number and justify the teaching approach taken as a result of this analysis.
- What does it mean to learn and teach Mathematics?
- Place value
- Whole numbers
- The meaning of the operations: Addition and Subtraction; Multiplication and Division
- Fractions: Developing fraction knowledge and understanding
- Fractions: Exploring equivalence and operations
- Decimals
- Algebraic thinking
- Multiplicative thinking: Proportional reasoning
- Planning for Mathematics teaching and classroom practice
This subject introduces students to pedagogies appropriate for teaching primary mathematics and contributes to your evidence for meeting Graduate Teaching Standards . The subject will model and provide opportunities for students to engage with rich tasks, group work, problem solving, and differentiating the curriculum using examples from the number domain of the Australian Curriculum. Students will develop their understanding of appropriate pedagogies for teaching mathematics and their knowledge of relevant curricula, the development of students' thinking in number, and the relationship of content knowledge to pedagogy. It will provide pre-service teachers with opportunities to deepen their own mathematical content knowledge within the domain of number, assess primary students' mathematical thinking using work samples and to evaluate teaching resources.
- Examination - take home (30%)
- Rich Mathematical Task (20%)
- Task Analysis (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-EDC-MAS-2025 - Master of Teaching (Primary)
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: weekly online lecture (1 hour), Weekly online webinar (2 hours), independent learning (6 hours)
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateTAS-EDC-MAS