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Offerings
MURDOCH-SS2-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-SS2-INT-2018-ONGOING
Requisites
Prerequisite
Exclusion
Enrolment rules
Enrolment in the Master of Teaching (Primary)
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Learning outcomes
1.
Outline the content and the proficiency strands of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics (ACM)
2.
Locate the details of the ACM online
3.
Understand the mathematics described in the ACM
4.
Know some of the common misconceptions that children may hold about certain mathematical ideas and the need for a diagnostic approach
5.
Be able to plan a well-structured lesson that enables students to learn the knowledge and skills that you intend them to learn
6.
Draft a year-long program and plan a series of lessons for teaching and learning a key concept or a big idea
7.
Demonstrate some ability in assessing children’s learning
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:
The unit content includes the following key topics:
- Approaches to learning and teaching primary mathematics
- Australian Curriculum: Early numbers, Whole and Decimal Numbers and Place Value Fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios
- The four arithmetic operations; can calculators help or hinder?
- Lesson planning; putting parts together
- Assessment: diagnostic, formative and summative
- Measurement & Geometry 1: 2D & 3D shapes, nets, transformations and locations; using ICT tools including dynamic geometry software in iPads or laptops
- Measurement & Geometry 2: Understand units, direct & indirect measure, estimation
- Programming: Planning a year-long program
- Statistics & Probability 1: Collecting and analysing data; representation, interpretation and communication; use of ICT tools?
- Statistics & Probability 2: Introduction to Chance; language and simple measures