CRIN 325B Met/Mat in Teach/Math
325. EARLY CHILDHOOD MATHEMATICS
METHODS (Credit, 3 hours). This
course is designed to provide preservice and
in-service PK-3rd grade mathematics teachers
with ideas, techniques, and approaches to
teaching mathematics that will enable their
students to acquire mathematical concepts,
attitudes and skills needed to become mathematically
literate. The general goals of the
course are to: 1) familiarize teacher candidates
with the guiding principles that have proven
to be effective in facilitating the learning of
mathematics on the part of all students; 2)
enable teacher candidates to facilitate the
development of the process skills that students
in grades PK-3 need in order to learn and use
mathematics; 3) enable teacher candidates to
engage students in the processes that will
result in the acquisition of mathematical content
knowledge; and 4) heighten the aware
ness on the part of teacher candidates that
mathematics is a human activity to which all
cultures have contributed.