MT 119 - Mathematics for Elementary Education Teachers II

Fulfills SUNY General Education – Mathematics.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to 1:

Taken from: The Mathematical Education of Teachers from Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences in conjunction with the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America

• demonstrate visualization skills:
  • demonstrate the use of projections, cross-sections, and decompositions of common two- and three-dimensional figures; and
  • represent three-dimensional shapes in two dimensions and construct three-dimensional objects from two dimensional representations.
• demonstrate familiarity with basic shapes and their properties:
  • identify fundamental objects of geometry;
  • demonstrate an understanding of angles and how they are measured;
  • demonstrate an understanding of plane isometries: reflections (flips), rotations (turns), and translations (slides)-and symmetries;
  • demonstrate an understanding of congruence and similarity; and
  • demonstrate an understanding of technical vocabulary and an understanding of the importance of definition.
• demonstrate an understanding of the process of measurement:
  • demonstrate different aspects of size;
  • demonstrate an understanding of the idea of unit and the need to select a unit appropriate to the attribute being measured;
  • demonstrate a knowledge of the standard (English and metric) systems of units;
  • demonstrate an understanding of comparing units; and
  • demonstrate an understanding that measurements are approximate and that different units affect precision.
• demonstrate an understanding of length, area, and volume:
  • demonstrate an understanding of one, two, and three dimensions;
  • illustrate rectangles as arrays of squares, rectangular solids as arrays of cubes;
  • demonstrate an understanding of the behavior of measure (length, area, and volume) under uniform dilations;
  • devise area formulas for triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids; knowing the formula for the area of a circle; becoming familiar with formulas for prisms, cylinders, and other three-dimensional objects; and
  • demonstrate an understanding of the interdependence of perimeter and area; surface area and volume.
• demonstrate the ability to design data investigations:
  • demonstrate an understanding of the kinds of questions that can be addressed by data;
  • demonstrate an understanding of creating data sets; and
  • demonstrate the ability to move back and forth between the question (the purpose of the study) and the design of the study.
• demonstrate the ability to design data investigations:
  • Demonstrate an understanding of describing the shape of a distribution: symmetry versus skewed data distribution and what this indicates about the question being addressed;
  • Demonstrate an understanding of describing the spread of a distribution: range, outliers, clusters, gaps and what these indicate about the question to be addressed by the data;
  • Demonstrate an understanding of describing the center of a distribution: mean, median, and mode and what these indicate about the question to be addressed by the data;
  • Demonstrate an understanding of different forms of data representation, e.g., line plots, stem-and-leaf plots, among others; recognizing that different forms of representation communicate different features of the data; and
  • Demonstrate the ability to compare two sets of data (not always of the same size).
• demonstrate the ability to draw conclusions:
  • demonstrate the ability to choose among representations and summary statistics to communicate conclusions;
  • demonstrate an understanding of variability; and
  • demonstrate an understanding of some of the difficulties that arise in sampling and inference.
• demonstrate an understanding of probability:
  • demonstrate an ability to make judgments under uncertainty;
  • demonstrate an ability to assign numbers as a measure of likelihood; and
  • demonstrate an understanding of the idea of randomness.
• demonstrate an understanding of functions:
  • demonstrate a conceptual understanding of what is a function; and
  • demonstrate the ability to read and create graphs of functions, work with formulas, and use tables of values.
• demonstrate the ability to use manipulatives to develop understanding of mathematical concepts throughout the course.

Technology Objectives:

• demonstrate the ability to use the arithmetic operations on the scientific calculator to solve algebraic and real world algebraic problems;
• demonstrate an understanding of the keys
  
  √n ,x²,y^x,π,±,%, (  ) 2^nd inv key; and
   
• demonstrate an understanding of order of operations on the scientific calculator.

 

Prerequisites: MT 118 or appropriate college equivalent and/or appropriate mathematics level code.*
F/S (C, N, S)

*Level code is determined by Mathematics Department placement test and/or successful completion of math courses.