Course Content:   This course explores four important topics in the elementary curriculum: geometry, measurement, statistics, and probability. Although one does not typically think of these topics as foundations of the elementary curriculum, each is introduced in the early elementary grades and is developed in greater detail as students progress. This course will assess your ability in two areas: (1) your understanding of the mathematics, and (2) your ability to communicate your understanding of the mathematics. The latter goal is especially relevant to your future as an elementary teacher. Not only will you be asked to solve problems, you will also be asked to examine your solution process – why you used it and why it works. In this way, we hope you emerge from Math 131 with a better understanding of the mathematics and an improved ability to teach it.

Required Texts:
  (1) Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Contemporary Approach, Seventh Edition; Musser, Burger, and Peterson; Wiley Publishing.
  (2) Connected Mathematics - Probability; What Do You Expect? by Gledna Lappan et al.; Dale Seymour Publications.


Course Supervisor:  Mary Ann Sojda
                     Office:   Wilson Hall, Rm 2-198
                      Email: sojda@math.montana.edu
                      Phone:   994-5232  
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