Course PIPP1203 · Year I · Summer 2024-2025

METHODOLOGY OF MATHEMATICAL ACTIVITIES

Compulsory course in Pedagogy of primary and preschool education, taught by Valer Daniel Breaz.

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Overview

Lecturer
Valer Daniel Breaz
Seminar tutor
Ioan Lucian Popa
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Education Sciences
Field of study
Pedagogy of primary and preschool education
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, discussion, exemplification.

Aims

Formation and capacity to communicate using mathematical language.

Development of interest and motivation for the study and application of mathematics in various contexts.

Passing from the image of the educator transmitter information from the organizer of various learning activities for all children, depending on their own level and pace of development of each.

Course contents

1. Objectives of mathematical activities. 2. Objectives and framework of reference. 3. Pedagogical and methodological bases of mathematical activities. 4. Development of sensations and perceptions through direct actions with objects. 5. Srting skills training, writing, classification by common characteristics. 6. Creation of a global assessment by implementing pairs. 7. Training of mathematical language. 8. Sets. 9. Training notions of natural numbers and operations with integers. 10. Addition and subtraction. 11. Mathematical game. 12. Assessment in mathematical activities.

Learning outcomes

After following this course students will be able to: -to use the correct terminology in various contexts and mathematics; -To identify methods for solving exercises and problems that arise in mathematics; -to succeed application in different contexts of teaching methods;

Assessment

Final evaluation – 50%; Seminar activities – 50%.

Recommended reading

Didactics of Mathematics as a Scientific Discipline
Biehler R., Scholz R.W., Strasser R
Springer, 2002
Teaching Number Sense: Kindergarten
Chris Confer
-, 2005
Mathematics Across the Curriculum: Problem-Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy in Primary Schools
Sue Fox, Liz Surtees
Continuum, 2010
Mathematics in the Primary School (Subjects in the Primary School Series)
Richard R Skemp
Routledge, 1992