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MATH 107 |
Math for
Elementary Teaching |
Fall 2006 |
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Section 01 |
Monday
Wednesday 1:10 – 2:30 |
Scott 204 |
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Michael Beals |
Office Hours |
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77 Hamilton
Street, Room 206 |
732-932-8436 |
M 11:30 – 1:00 W 2:30 – 4:30 |
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Hill Center,
Room 540 |
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By
Arrangement |
Topics
to be covered:
1.
Whole number operations
a. Place value
b. Algorithms (standard and invented)
c. Arithmetic in other bases
d. Remainders (different things they can mean)
e. Signed numbers
2.
Fractions
a. Algorithms
b. Problems
c. Decimals
d. Percents
e. Connections of decimals and percents to place value and fraction ideas
3.
Ratio and proportion
4.
Measurement (examples to be used in earlier topics, this unit will be used to tie
together those ideas)
a. Units (choice of units)
b. Approximation and accuracy
c. Estimation
5.
Algebra
a. Variables
b. Equations
Some
examples from discrete mathematics, probability & statistics and geometry
will be used throughout as a way to use those ideas while exploring the other
topics.