ED5232 - Curriculum Essentials 2: Mathematics

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Education

Available only to students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma of Education (Years 1 to 9)

This subject is designed to equip students with the mathematical and pedagogical language, knowledge and skills needed to facilitate the active learning of mathematics in the primary and middle school.

Learning Outcomes

• appreciate mathematics as a science of pattern and order;
• ability to engage in professional inquiry to investigate and critically evaluate a variety of classroom interactional patterns;
• demonstrate knowledge of the Essential Learnings and standards and their application in practice;
• demonstate a critical understanding of the use of models and ICTs in learning mathematics;
• undertake a small research project investigating (i) mathematics across the curriculum: mathematics and environmental sustainability, or (ii) social sustainability: how to better cater for the needs of Aboriginal, Torres Strait or NESB students in mathematics.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

ED5223

Availabilities
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coord/Lect:	Dr Philemon Chigeza.
Contact hours:	39 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	end of semester exam (25%); quiz (25%); research project (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.