2025 Summer 2

Course Description

This course provides opportunities for participants to examine the actions and situations modeled by the four basic operations. The course will begin with a view of young children's counting strategies as they encounter word problems, moves to an examination of the four basic operations on whole numbers, and revisits the operations in the context of rational numbers.

Learning Outcomes

The goals of this course are to help participants:

• Learn more mathematics content for themselves

• Examine how their mathematical identities impact the decisions they make

• Recognize key mathematical ideas in the context of the study of contextual problems with whole numbers and operations of fractions

• Explore ways they can support the development of positive math identities within their students

• Appreciate the power and complexity of students’ mathematical thinking

• Ask questions of students that will deepen their mathematical understanding

• Analyze a particular activity to uncover the mathematics students will learn from it

• Adapt curriculum to meet individual student's needs

• Define and select appropriate mathematical objectives for content relating to contextual problems with whole numbers and operations of fractions

• Make mathematical connections and enhance their ability to help students do so

• Connect their experiences in the course to research results

• Explore the Five Equity Based Practices and connect to teaching and learning.