Class: MAT 590 Mathematics for Elementary

School Teachers.

Instructor: Dr. Tom M. Giambrone

Office: 331 Bishop Hall

Phone: 878 5717 or 878 5621

Office Hours: M 4:30-5:30

Other times by appointment

Email: giambrtm@math.buffalostate.edu

Website: http://math.buffalostate.edu/~giambrtm/

Purpose of the course.

The role of this course is to provide an understanding behind the mathematics taught in the elementary school. To view mathematics as a thinking curriculum.

Materials

Book

IMAP CD-ROM: Integrating Mathematics and Pedagogy to Illustrate Children's Reasoning San Diego State University Foundation, Randy Philipp, San Diego State University

Purchase on-Line at:http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0131198548,00.html

Calculator. Preferably a graphing calculator i.e. TI 73, 83.

Bingo Chips

Computer

Email

Access to the Internet.

All Materials will be distributed through my Web Site.

Scope of the Course

The course will cover topics of logic, numeration, number theory and operations with integers through reals. Supplemental materials may be given at appropriate times. You will also be expected to work on computer assignment in the mathematics computer lab in Room 340 in Bishop Hall.

Evaluation

Tests

There will be a midterm and final.

Assignments

Assignments will be given weekly and due the following week.

Grades

Your grade for the course will be determined as follows:

The assignments - 50%

The final Tests 50%

The grading scale will be as follows:

95-100 A

91-95 A-

87 - 91 B+

83 - 87 B

80 - 83 B-

77 - 80 C+

73 - 77 C

70 - 73 C-

60- 70 D

Below 60 E

Attendance.

Attendance is mandatory. Your final grade will be multiplied by (N-A)/(N-1) where A is the number of classes you do not attend and N is the number of class meetings.
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Notification for absence from tests.

You must notify me at least two hours in advance if you are unable to take a test. Illness must be documented by evidence of seeing a physician. (receipt with your name on it.) If there is a death in the family, please bring in the obituary from your local paper. This may sound cruel however, I have had a grandmother or two die several times in a semester. This way I can verify to other students, if challenged, that you did not receive preferential treatment.