This unit focuses on mathematical knowledge for teaching and pedagogical content and will also develop your confidence, creativity, and communication skills for teaching mathematics to primary school children. The content focus in this unit is number and algebra and focuses on the development of your skills, knowledge and understandings of the concepts and connections in mathematical content for teaching the number and algebra strand. You will engage in mathematical problem solving including rich tasks, open questions and cross curricular contexts as you develop your knowledge of the content for mathematics teaching.
You will develop practices and strategies used by primary teachers to enhance student learning in understanding number, additive, multiplicative, relational and proportional thinking, as well as exploring the patterns of algebra. You will develop understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning skills and consider pedagogical approaches enabling primary students to develop proficiency in these areas.
This unit will incorporate the development and trialling of strategies for planning, implementing and evaluating a 4 or 5 lesson sequence in a primary school.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Links to relevant texts will be provided on VUCollaborate
This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.