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EDUP3045: Teaching Primary Mathematics 3
2024 unit information
In this third unit of study in Mathematics Eduation, students will explore children's development of multiplicative thinking and proportional reasoning involving fractions, representations of fractions, and connections with decimals and percentages. Students will develop a diagnostic interview to assess upper-primary children's understandings of fractions, then write a sequence of engaging and challenging learning experiences. Students also explore the development of children's algebraic thinking (beyond Stage 1), probabilistic thinking and statistical reasoning. They integrate statistical learning with other disciplines, using first-hand data obtained in a real-life context.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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36 credit points of 2000-level EDUP-coded units |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Use informal assessment, specifically a diagnostic interview, to assess a child’s understanding of fractions and analyse the results in relation to a research-based developmental learning framework.
- LO2. Work collaboratively with peers to design a diagnostic assessment, then design a sequence of differentiated learning experiences with a set goal based on knowledge of student learning and effective teaching strategies, and knowledge of content specified in the NSW syllabus and a developmental learning framework
- LO3. Utilise ICT and critically reflect upon appropriate ICT to further students’ mathematical understanding and fluency and to work effectively with parents/caregivers
- LO4. Choose and use appropriate mathematical activities that are engaging, provide an achievable challenge, promote mathematical thinking and support the participation of students across the full range of abilities
- LO5. Apply knowledge of a variety of assessment strategies including clinical interviewing, observation and work sample analysis, to evaluate and report on a child’s mathematical needs
- LO6. Demonstrate the integration of mathematics with other disciplines through designing an activity using context
- LO7. Demonstrate increased content knowledge of mathematics, pertaining to multiplicative thinking, rational numbers, statistics and probability and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching these concepts.
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