Mathematical Reasoning in the Elementary Grades: Algebra, Geometry, & Statistics

SED ME 504

This course is required for graduate students majoring in elementary education who are preparing to become teachers of children in kindergarten through grade five. This course focuses on topics in algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics. Students explore mathematics form the perspective of student and teacher. The emphasis is on making sense of key ideas in algebra and geometry and on exploring how student's understanding of these topics emerge and develop. 4cr, 2nd sem.