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01:640:107 - Number and Operation for K-8 Teaching

  • Course Code: 01:640:107
  • Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Credits: 3
  • SAS Core Certified: QQ, QR
  • Counts toward math major/minor?: No
  • Prerequisites: Math 025 or placement

General Information

This course is intended for future teachers, but not necessarily those who will specialize in teaching mathematics.  Although intended primarily for those who will teach at the K-8 level, it is valuable as a foundation for K-12 teaching as well.

Math 107 will probably seem like quite a change of pace from your typical math course. It reexamines many of the mathematical ideas with which you are already familiar, placing them in the context of the subject as a whole but in addition viewing them from the perspective of young students first learning them. The emphasis will be on reasoning and communication, and you will do much more written explanation than in a typical math course. Much of the time in class will be spent on interactive work, rather than classical lectures.

This course is taught during both fall and spring semesters but does require a special permission number.  
Please apply for an SPN via Special Permission for K-8 Teaching Courses. The course is typically offered in the spring semester.

Prerequisite:  Elementary Algebra.  Students must have taken or placed out of Elementary Algebra to enter this course.

Admission to the course is by permission of the department. This does not use our online system, but is handled separately by .

Textbook

Textbook:  For current textbook please refer to our Master Textbook List page

Syllabus

Topics to be covered:

  1.     .  Place Value
  2. Algorithms for Whole Numbers
    1.        Addition
    2.        Subtraction
    3.        Multiplication
    4.        Division
    5.        Non-Base Ten Algorithms
  3.        Signed Numbers
  4. Fractions
    1.        Defining Fractions
    2.        Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
    3.        Multiplication of Fractions
    4.        Division of Fractions
    5.        Comparing Fractions
  5.        Ratio and Proportion
  6. Decimals
    1.        Addition and Subtraction of Decimals
    2.        Multiplication of Decimals
    3.        Division of Decimals
    4.        Rational vs Irrational
    5.        Converting and Comparing: Decimals and Fractions 

Archives

Previous semesters:

  • Fall 2007, 2008. Professor Beals.
  • Fall 2006, Professor Beals.
  • Listed first as 103 T1 and then as 107, taught by Professor Beals.

Schedule of Sections

01:640:107 Schedule of Sections