EDUC 527 - Special Topics in Mathematical Pedagogy

3 Hour(s) Credit
Examines current trends and issues in elementary/early childhood mathematics pedagogy. Focuses on helping educators understand and facilitate mandated and non-mandated curricular changes that have the real potential to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics at the elementary and early childhood levels. Focuses on research-based teaching/learning processes that facilitate conceptual and critical understandings of mathematics as well as the required mathematical understandings that teachers need in order to teach in conceptual ways.
Three hours per week.
Prerequisites Admission to graduate study.