Course PIPP2404 · Year II · Summer 2026-2027

Didactics of mathematics in primary and pre-school education

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

Overview

Lecturer
Valer Daniel Breaz
Seminar tutor
Valer Daniel Breaz
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. Methods for solving problems. 2. Ways to activization of students in mathematics lesson 3. The role of education in mathematics lesson. 4. Assessment in math lessons 5. Place and role play in teaching math lesson. 6. Main objectives of teaching mathematics in primary schools. 7. Training the students' concept of natural number 8. The methodology of teaching and learning operations in N 9. The methodology of Teaching fractions and operations with fractions 10. The methodology of Teaching of units 11. The methodology of teaching and learning geometry elements.

Learning outcomes

After following these 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

Arithmetics
Marc Hindry
Springer, 2011
Teaching mathematics: a handbook for primary and secondary school teachers
Pamela Cowan
Routledge, 2006
Mathematics in the Primary School (Subjects in the Primary School Series)
Richard R Skemp
Routledge, 1992