Course 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 Entry Requirements:

N/A

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.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, discussion, exemplification.

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;

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

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

Recommended reading:

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