Graduate course. The conception of teachers as reflective practitioners and as transformative intellectuals has gained wide recognition in the field of education. This course is designed to familiarize students with the nature of action research in reflective and critical perspectives. It also aims to provide students with guidelines in developing their own action research plans … Continue reading PEDU 6406 – Action Research in Education

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; … Continue reading BMED 3060 – Teaching of number and number sense

Graduate course. This course offers an introduction to the theoretical aspects of mathematics teaching and learning in face of the challenge from the ever-changing mathematics curriculum. It will provide an overview of both cognitive and socio-psychological issues involved in both the teaching and the learning of mathematics from the perspective of contemporary mathematics education research … Continue reading MAED 6161 – Teaching and Learning Mathematics in the Changing Curriculum