This unit simultaneously focuses on mathematical content and teaching and learning approaches that increase Year 7 - 10 students' opportunities to learn mathematics. Informed by findings from middle years research, and guided by the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (2005), and National Curriculum Documents, autonomous student thinking is a focus of attention. A diversity of tasks (from the areas of Number, Space, Measurement, Chance and Data, Structure - numeric and algebraic structure) is examined. Tasks are then designed and implemented, and reflections upon the learning that occurred model the thinking of reflective teachers. Many complexities associated with classroom teaching... -- Course Website
Instructor: C Vale
Prerequisites: Minimum discipline study requirement is a sub-major study in Mathematics equivalent to half a year of successful full-time higher education study. In most programs this equates to four units of mathematics including sequential units with no more than two
