Mathematics

A study of the concept of number from a teacher’s perspective to enable better understanding of children’s thinking and misconceptions and to appropriately direct their learning. Topics will include number patterns, place value, fractions, decimals, and prime numbers; and the operations performed with these numbers. Problems suitable for elementary students will be part of our investigations. For elementary teachers only.

A study of concepts from geometry and measurement from a teacher’s perspective to enable better understanding of children’s thinking and misconceptions and to appropriately direct their learning. Topics will include 2 and 3 dimensional shapes and their properties and visualization, transformations, linear and area measure, probability, and data analysis. Problems suitable for elementary students will be part of our investigations. For elementary teachers only.