BMED 3060 – Teaching of number and number sense

Undergraduate course. Focuses on the understanding and cultivation of number and number sense, school children’s learning of basic quantitative skills, from counting objects to the four rules of arithmetic, both in exact calculations and in estimation. Related topics include: mathematics
content knowledge, psychology of learning, pedagogical approaches, and epistemological
relationships between mathematical concepts involved. (Fall 2016; Fall 2017)