MAT-501: Number and Operations for the Middle School Educator

Department
Credits 3.00
Academic Level
Graduate
Instructional Method
Lecture
An integration of the study of the rational numbers with reflection on the teaching and learning of arithmetic concepts in the spirit of the NCTM?s Principles and Standards of School Mathematics. Mathematical content includes rational numbers and their fundamental algorithms, the place of the rational numbers in the real number system, scientific notation as a means of expressing very large and very small numbers and number theory topics appropriate for the middle school. [ 3 credits ]