Mathematics 4010: Summer 2009

Instructor: Michael van Opstall
Office: JWB 313, Tel: 585-5435
Email: opstall@math.utah.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Textbook: Musser, Burger, Peterson: Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, 7th ed.

Schedule

Date	Sections	Homework	Special
6/10	1.1-1.2	1.1B: #2,3,8,13,17; 1.2B: #1,7,9,18 (due 6/15)	Sudoku activity Bees activity
6/12	2.1-2.2	2.1B: #1,7,13,21,25,32; 2.2B: #8-12,18,19 (due 6/22)	Video on evaluation Some 2.1 notes 1.1B, #17 - a start
6/15	2.2-2.3	2.3B: #1,2,5,13-15,22 (due 6/22)	Virtual manipulatives
6/17	Catch up, wrap up ch. 1-2		Quiz on ch. 1-2
6/19	3.1	3.1B: #3,7,12,13,14 (due 6/29)
6/22	3.2	3.2B: #2,5,7,8,10,11,14,23,30 (due 6/29)	Magic squares activity
6/24	3.3	3.3B: #4,6,7,14,15 (due 6/29)	Quiz on 3.1, 3.2
6/26	4.1-4.2(add)	4.1B: #1-10 (due 7/6)	Observation report due
6/29	4.2(others)	4.2B: #3,5,9,11,15,17,23,31,32 (due 7/6)
7/1	4.3	4.3B: #1-5,9,10 (due 7/13)	Quiz on 3.3-4.2
7/6	5.1	5.1B: #2-9,18,22,27,29 (due 7/13)
7/8	5.2	5.2B: #1,4,6,8,12,20,24 (due 7/20)	Quiz on 4.3, 5.1
7/10	6.1	6.1B: #1,2,8-10,13,17 (due 7/20)
7/13	6.2	6.2B: #3,4,6-10,21 (due 7/20)
7/15	6.3	6.3B: #2,4,6,8-10,12,16 (due 7/20)	Quiz on 5.2-6.2
7/17	7.1-7.2	7.1B: #1,2,6,10,14 (due 7/27)
7/20	7.2-7.3	7.2B: #1,2,4,9,10,26-28 (due 7/27)
7/22	7.4	7.3B: #1,5,7,8,24 (due 8/3) 7.4B: #1-6,8,15 (due 8/3)	Practicum report due Quiz on 6.3-7.2
7/27	8.1-8.2	8.1B: #3,4,6,10,12,17 (due 8/3) 8.2B: #2-4,6,12,15 (due 8/3)
7/29	8.2	9.1B: #1-11 (due 8/3)	Quiz on ch. 8
7/31	9.1-9.2	First part of review: Chapter Test problems: p. 41: 1,3,10,11,21 p. 101: 1,2,5,6,8,9,11 p. 148: 1,4-8,10,12 p. 189: 1,2-5,12,13
8/3	Review	Second part of review: Chapter Test problems: p. 229: 1,3-8,10,12,16 p. 277: 1,4-9,13-16 p. 330: 1,4,5,7-11 p. 368: 1,5,7,12
8/5	FINAL EXAM

Portfolio things

Sudoku | Bees | Magic Squares

Course Content

This course is the first in a two-semester sequence of required mathematics courses for elementary school teachers. The sequence is designed to help K-6 preservice teachers develop a conceptual framework for mathematics, especially for those aspects normally experienced in primary and elementary school. Through their work in each course in the sequence students examine the common threads of mathematics throughout the curriculum, consider both mathematical and pedagogical issues in teaching, and spend a six hour practicum in a local school relating their course work to the classroom situation.

Please note: This course is designed for preservice elementary school teachers and requires time spent in the elementary school classroom. Students must complete the practicum (described below) in order to pass the course.

Grading

Portfolio: The portfolio is a way to organize your work for the semester. It should be well organized and have a table of contents. The portfolio must include all work done for the class - homeworks, quizzes, exams, in-class activities - as well as a copy of the Utah elementary math core curriculum.
Assignments: There will be about 7 assignments on the course work during the semester. These assignments will be due Mondays. Assignments should be done on lined paper or graph paper, neatly organized, well labeled, and legible. It should be stapled together before coming to class and is due at the beginning of class on the assigned day. Late assignments (including those turned in at the end of class on the due date) will lose 10%.
Quizzes: Quizzes will be given every Wednesday for the last 40 minutes of class. These may not be made up except under absolutely exceptional circumstances. If you are sick on a quiz day, you must go to the doctor and bring me a note.
Practicum: Each student will spend six hours in an elementary school classroom, three periods observing and three periods working with one or two children in the classroom. This classroom experience will be the subject of some class discussion and an assignment so please be sure to complete your observations by June 26. The practicum report is a typewritten analysis of your mathematical work with the children. Be sure to keep careful notes from your work with the children in order to have the information available when you write your practicum report. This report is due July 22 and will be discussed in detail in class. More details are here.
Final Exam: Comprehensive, on the last day of class. room.
ADA Statement: The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that reasonable accommodations be made for students with physical, sensory, cognitive, systemic, learning, and psychiatric disabilities. Please contact me at the beginning of the quarter to discuss any such accommodations for the course.
Calculators: Calculators will not be allowed on exams.