Faculty of Education · Primary School Teaching · Undergraduate
Course Objective
To teach and apply current theories, approaches, methods and techniques related to Mathematics Education. To develop a sample activity environment in the teaching of concepts, processes and skills in the primary school 1-4 mathematics curriculum and to develop the knowledge and skills of the classroom teacher in mathematics.
Course Content
The purpose and basic principles of mathematics teaching; history of mathematics teaching (in the world and in Turkey); teaching and learning strategies to be used in teaching mathematics; Scope, purpose and features of the primary school mathematics program; major learning theories and their relationships with mathematics learning; important skills in mathematics education, association, representations, communication, reasoning, problem solving (strategies, stages, problem types, etc.); using information technologies, development of the concept of number in the child (pre-counting developments, one-to-one mapping, cardinal value, combining, separating, comparing, equivalence, scarcity, abundance, etc.); place value, formation and structural properties of natural numbers; arithmetic operations, related topics in the primary school mathematics curriculum, achievements and examples of activities suitable for them.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Evaluates how mathematical thinking develops in children
- Explain how the concept of number develops in children.
- Plan mathematics courses suitable for the mathematical development characteristics of primary school 1-4 students.
- Explains how mathematics learning process takes place.
- Explain how mathematical knowledge can be associated with different disciplines and types of mathematical knowledge.
- Explain important skills in mathematics and how to develop them in children.
Core Area Distribution
Teaching Methods
Assessment & Evaluation
ECTS / Workload
| Activity | Quantity | Duration (h) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 24 | 2 | 48 |
| Midterm | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Practice | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharing Course Objectives and Expectations Introduction, Mathematical literacy and process skills | Resource book |
| 2 | Learning Theories (Mathematical literacy and process skills; Piaget, Bruner, Dienes, Skemp, and the constructivist approach) | Resource book |
| 3 | Review of the "Century of Türkiye" Education Model Primary School Mathematics Curriculum Pre-number concepts (matching, classifying, ordering, conservation, counting principles, and subitizing); developing and teaching number sense. | Resource book |
| 4 | Teaching Place Value and Number Systems (Place value, base-ten blocks, grouping beans/sticks, abacus, and number line) | Resource book |
| 5 | Teaching Addition and Subtraction (Semantic structures of addition/subtraction [joining, combining, separating, comparing], ten-frames, and misconceptions) | Resource book |
| 6 | Teaching Multiplication and Division (Repeated addition, Array/Area model, Equal grouping, Multiplication table strategies, Dimensions of division (Sharing/Grouping)) | Resource book |
| 7 | Mental Calculation, Estimation (Mental computation strategies (Rounding, Compatible numbers, Decomposing)) | Resource book |
| 8 | Ara Sınav | Ara Sınav |
| 9 | Problem Solving, Problem Posing, and Technology (Pólya’s steps, routine/non-routine problems, types of problem posing, GeoGebra and other virtual applications) | Resource book |
| 10 | Microteaching | - |
| 11 | Microteaching | - |
| 12 | Microteaching | - |
| 13 | Microteaching | - |
| 14 | Microteaching | - |
| 15 | Microteaching | - |
| 16 | Final Sınavı | Final Sınavı |