Available in 2024
Course code

EDUC2749

Units

10 units

Level

2000 level

Course handbook

Description

This course provides an introduction to teaching and learning in Mathematics in K-6 contexts. Students will explore the NSW Mathematics K-6 syllabus incorporating the Australian Curriculum, planning for teaching and learning which incorporates strategies for differentiation, task development, identification of student misconceptions, algebraic thinking and real life problem solving.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Ourimbah

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Replacing course(s)

This course replaces the following course(s): EDUC3739. Students who have successfully completed EDUC3739 are not eligible to enrol in EDUC2749.


Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate their understanding of the development of children's mathematical knowledge, skills and understanding in Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability.

2. Demonstrate their understanding of the processes children use in Working Mathematically.

3. Demonstrate their understanding and use of the NSW Mathematics K-6 syllabus incorporating the Australian Curriculum (2024) to plan for learning and teaching in all aspects of numeracy.

4. Demonstrate effective planning for learning which incorporates:a) Planning a sequence of lesson overviews and developing one of these into a full lesson planb) Modifying content and overcoming student misconceptionsc) Assessment strategies: diagnostic, formative and summatived) Strategies for generalising


Content

The study of:

  • big ideas in mathematics and mathematical concepts and processes: such as developing number sense, place value, additive and multiplicative thinking
  • the knowledge base underpinning the pedagogies and practices of teaching and learning mathematics
  • models of pedagogy for teaching and assessing primary mathematics
  • range of strategies for differentiating teaching in primary mathematics – problem solving in mathematics- planning and communicating mathematical processes - key ideas in mathematics and common student misconceptions
  • ways of differentiating curriculum to meet the diverse needs of learners in the mathematics classroom
  • the place of primary mathematics in the continuum of learning in K-12, including a particular understanding of the links between Stage 3 and Stage 4
  • the Mathematics K-6 Syllabus, support documents and NSW Primary Curriculum Foundation Statements
  • the nature and role of mathematics in describing and modelling patterns and relationships that can be generalised, and as a means of interpreting the world
  • working with data (basic statistical literacy) including planning, gathering, organizing, applying data to solve problems, and communicating results through the selection of appropriate representations

Requisites

For students who commenced in the program in 2016 onwards, enrolment in this course is dependent on successful completion of the teacher education admission milestone:

- Three HSC band 5s (including one in English) or

- 80 units of UON courses or

- Regulatory authority approved comparable pathways.

If you have successfully completed EDUC3739 you cannot enrol in this course.

Teacher Education Milestone


Assumed knowledge

MATH1900, EDUC1050


Assessment items

Professional Task: Task Development

Proposal / Plan: Lesson Plan


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Live Virtual Lecture-1
  • Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1

Semester 1 - 2024 - Ourimbah

Live Virtual Lecture-1
  • Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1

Course outline