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Teaching Primary Mathematics 1
Postgraduate | TAS-EMT521 | 2020
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Teaching Primary Mathematics 1
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, students 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 matheematics 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
- The meaning of the operations: Multiplication and division
- Fractions: Developing fraction knowledge and understanding
- Fractions: Exploring equivalence and operations
- Decimals
- Planning for mathematics teaching
- Multiplicative thinking: Proportional reasoning
- Professional experience placement
- Reflection: Classroom practice and the 5 practices
- Algebraic thinking
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.
- Internal assessment (50%)
- Invigilated exam (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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