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Martha Voyles 
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Spring 2003
Syllabus  —  Education 316  —  Math Methods
Text:  Van deWalle, John A.  Elementary and Middle School Mathematics
Jan. 21 NCTM Standards for Mathematics Instruction
   

Read:

Text - Chap. 1 and NCTM Principles and Standards pp. 3-4 (Vision, stop at heading in middle of p. 4) and pp. 52-71
   

Assignment:

Write a brief summary in your own words of each of the five process standards.  Give two examples of an activity that illustrates each one. (C3)
   
Jan. 23  Effective Instruction / Best Practice
   

Read:

Good and Grouws, Active Mathematics Teaching, pp. 30-55, 206-212 and handout on Missouri Mathematics Plan.  (As you read, jot down recommendations with page numbers.  In class, we’ll discuss how they do or do not relate to the NCTM Standard and to the various learning theories you studied in Ed. Psych.  We’ll make a class list of “Best Practice” for D2.

Read:

Text – Chap. 3, pp. 26-32
   
Jan. 28 Early Number Concepts
   

Read:

Text - Chap. 6 (Early Concepts) and pp. 107-115 (single digit addition and subtraction) pp. 128-140, 171-175
   
  Skemp, Richard (1987).  Psychology of Learning Mathematics, Chap. 12, “Relational Understanding and Instrumental Understanding”.  Earlbaum.
   
  Skim:  Mathematics Their Way  (p. 166-67, 216, 236) and Windows on Mathematics (Kathy Richardson, Vol. 1). Be able to describe the merits and limitations of the two programs using NCTM Standards as the criteria.
   
Jan. 30  Microteaching:Lesson appropriate for kindergarten.  It must meet the needs of those who have mastered simple addition as well as those who are just learning basic number concepts.  The first volume in the Kathy Richardson series is a good resource.  I suggest you file your lessons in C1, C3, D1 or D2.  My evaluations can be filed with the lessons and one or two in F1. 
   
Feb. 4 Problem Solving/Games, Single Digit Addition and Subtraction
   

Read:

  Text - Chap. 2 (pp. 15-17), Chap. 4 (Problem Solving) and Wiebe - Chap. 20 (Games), Van de Walle pp. 55-59
  Xerox on problem solving
  "Story Problems and Students' Strategies,"  Arith. Teach., May '89, p. 25
  NCTM Standards, pp. 116-121, 182-187
  Leutzinger, Larry.  Strategies for Learning the Basic Facts - pp. 1& 2
  NCTM Standards pp. 78 and 148 (Number and Operations)
   

Assignment:

List items to add to best practices.
   
Feb. 6  Microteaching: Lessons on addition and subtraction 0-19 (unifix, cuisinaire, number line, objects)—first or second grade
   

Read: 

K. Richardson, Vol. 2
   
Feb. 11 Place Value
   

Read:

Text - Chap. 9 and 11 (Place Value), Chap. 10, pp. 171-180 (multidigit addition and subtraction)

"Teaching Place Value & Double Column Addition," Arith. Teach., Feb. '88, p. 48 and “Two-digit Addition and Subtraction: What Works?” Arith. Teacher., Jan. ’91, p. 10

   
Feb. 13 Microteaching: Addition and subtraction with regrouping / renaming from concrete to progressively more abstract representations of place value
   
Feb. 18  Teaching All Students Single Digit Multiplication and Division
   
Read:

Text—Chap. 23 (Culture and individual differences) and Chap. 7, pp. 115-126 and Chap. 8, pp. 140-147  (multiplication and division)

NCTM Standards pp. 12-14 (Equity) (Principle B)

Fennema and Peterson (1987).  Effective teaching for boys and girls.  Talks to TeachersNew York:  Random House.  (Principle B)

Strategies for Learning the Basic Facts - multiplication strategies

"The Dilemma of the Language of Division," ICTM Journal, Spring '89, p. 12

   
Feb. 20 Microteaching:  multiplication and division (first lessons) Resource Notebook due (Feb. 21)
   
Feb. 25 Technology and Multidigit Multiplication and Division
   

Read:

Text — Chap. 10, pp. 180-192 and Chap. 24              

“Magical Hopes,” Deborah Ball

Handout on calculator use

Examine Investigations for age group of your choice.  Add two investigations to your notebook.

NCTM Standards, pp. 24-27 (Technology Principle)

   
Feb. 27 Microteaching:  Multidigit Multiplication and Division
   
March 4  
   

Read:

Text - Chap. 12 ( Fractions) and Chap. 9, pp. 243-252  (Decimals)
   
March 6 Concept of Fractions and Decimals
   

Read:

Text – Chap. 22
   

Microteaching:

Fractions (paper folding, fraction pieces, number line) and Decimals (base 10 blocks, graph paper)

Resource Notebook due (March 7)

   
March 11 No class.  First two field experience lessons are due.
   
March 13 No class.  Rewrites of first two lessons and first drafts of next three lessons are due.
SPRING BREAK
   
March 31  Rewrites of last 3 lessons are due.
   
March 31- April 4 Field experience in the public schools
   
April 8 Adding Fractions and Decimals
   

Read:

Text - Chap. 12, pp. 228-232, 252-256
   
April 11  Microteaching:  Adding & Subtracting like and unlike fractions and decimals
   
April 15  Multiplying and Dividing Fractions and Decimals
   

Read

Text - Chap. 5 (Assessment), Chap. 13, pp. 232-242 and Chap. 14, pp.256-259

NCTM Standards pp. 22-24 (Principle G)

   
April 17 Microteaching:  Multiplying and Dividing Fractions (paper folding, rods, number line, fraction pieces)
   
April 22 Measurement
   

Read:

Text - Chap. 16

NCTM Standards, pp. 102-106, 170-175

   
Assignment:
Outline a lesson in measurement.
April 24

Read:  Text – Chap. 17

NCTM Standards pp. 96-101, 164-169                  

   

Assignment:

Outline a lesson in geometry or measurement

 Resource Notebook due (April 25)

   
April 29  Data Analysis and Probability
   

Read

Text – Chap. 18                      

Professional Standards for Teaching, pp. 11-15, 35-61 (skip H.S. vignettes) (Principle E)

Case Study “Establishing a Community of Mathematics Learners”

   

Skim:

Quantitative Literacy for Elementary
   
May 1

Read:  Ashlock, Error Patterns in Computation, pp. 10-17, Chap. 3, Chap. 4

– errors BF1, AW1, AW3, SW1

Case Study “Geometric Thinking”

   
May 6

Read:  Case Studies “Of-fing Fractions” and “Shea Numbers”

A Collection of Performance Tasks and Rubrics – pp. 49-55

NCTM Standards - pp. 38 -47

   
May 8 

Read: Case Study “Multiplication Clipes”

Errors MW2, MW3, DW1, DW4, SF3, DF1

   

Skim:

Assessment by NCTM
   

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