Mathematics Education

The Mathematics content courses are designed to support teachers in understanding deeply the mathematics they need for teaching. An inquiry format is used with course activities that

• center on challenging problems around significant mathematics

• are solved by students independently or collaboratively

• use language, representations, logic, symbols, and previously established meanings and concepts

• are shared publicly

• are mined for their mathematical concepts, processes, and relationships.

Many of the course materials are adaptations of school- based curricula, problems developed for research, and tasks inspired by the thinking of former students.

In Mathematics methods courses future teachers focus on the mathematics in a task, the student thinking that might arise including misconceptions, responses to support student reasoning, and assessment to gauge student learning.

Future elementary and secondary teachers majoring or minoring in mathematics are encouraged to see Dr. Krebs to help with course selection and sequence.