EDUC 533 - Mathematics Methods for the Elementary School

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2

Recognizing levels of cognitive abilities of children related to math ideas and skills they might be expected to learn, students identify and describe the cognitive abilities and prescribe math skills appropriate to these abilities; collect, order, and describe a variety of professional math resources available to the elementary school math teacher; plan and construct appropriate concrete or pictorial models to present selected mathematical ideas; select or develop materials useful in diagnosing a learner’s ability to perform selected math skills; diagnose success; and present remedial lessons if needed.