Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-AU7-EXT-2022-ONGOING
MURDOCH-SP2-EXT-2021-ONGOING

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Requisites

Exclusion

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in Graduate Certificate in Education (Secondary Mathematics 7 - 10) (C1140), OR Graduate Certificate in Education (C1153), OR Master of Education (Coursework) (M1313).

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Communicate the topics that are intimately related to Years 7-10 mathematics curriculum using university-level mathematical tools.

2.

Solve a variety of mathematical problems related to the concepts and techniques in dealing with real numbers and basic algebra, in linear and non-linear functions, and in geometry involving ideas of congruence and transformation.

3.

Develop skills that are crucial for effective teaching including constructing mathematical explanation and arguments, drawing diagrams to illustrate given information, creating examples and counterexamples, and using multiple representations of mathematical ideas

4.

Access, evaluate and use resources, including appropriate technologies, for teaching and learning secondary school mathematics.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Basics of number theory; Intuition and proof; Building the number system; Topics in the real number system & exponentiation; Theory of equations; Functions and modelling; The triangle: its study and consequences; Geometry: transformation, congruence, distance and similarity