EDU 373 - Elementary Mathematics Methods and Materials
Schedule -Fall Semester 2009
Updated: September 6, 2009
http://homepages.gac.edu/~mkoomen/edu373/fallschedule373.html

NOTE: Burns=Math Facing an American Phobia
van de Walle = Elementary and Middle School Mathematics, Teaching Developmentally
CP= Course Packet

September 2009
Date & Time
Readings and Assignments
SCI/MATH
Class 1
Wednesday, September 9
 10:30 am
Intro to Sci/Math
An Invitation to Teaching Math & Science
Marilyn Burns:1-4
Math class 2
Friday, September 11
12:45pm

Van de Walle
Chapters: 1 (Teaching Mathematics in the Era of the NCTM Standards) and 2 (Exploring what it means to know and do mathematics
Math and bananas!
Math class 3
Monday, September 14
10:30 am

Van de Walle Chapter 11: Developing Whole Number Place Value Concepts
Explore 100 day activities on the Internet

Autobiography due
Math class 4
Tuesday, September 15
10:30 am

Van de Walle: Chapters 3 (Teaching Through Problem Solving)
and revisiting place value (chapter 11)
Math class 5
Monday, September 21
10:30 am
Please read: Burns, chapters 5-8
Van de Walle: Chapters 8: Developing early number concepts
Math class 7
Monday, September 28

8:00 am
Van de Walle
Review: Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 8, 9 and 11
Teaching and planning simple math lessons
Math class 8
Tuesday, September 29
10:30 am
Whole Number Computations (part 1)
Van de Walle; Chapter 12
Please read: Burns (Finish the last chapters)
October 2009

Nobel Conference
Water: Uncertain Resource
October 6 & 7, 2009
Math class 9
Monday, October
12
10:30 am
Van de Walle
Whole Number Computations (part 2)
Van de Walle; Chapter 13 
Math class 10
Tuesday, October 13
10:30 am
Van de Walle: Chapter 6: Teaching Mathematics
Equitably to all Children (thinking this through with computation)

Course packet beginning on page 83: (Research
articles and additional reading section):
Montis, K. K. (2000). Language development
and concept flexibility in dyscalculia:
a case study. Journal for
Research in Mathematics 31, 541-556.

Science and Math Notebook check 1
Math class 11
Monday, October 19
10:30 am

Topic: TBA: Measurement, fractions, or data collection

Math class 12
Tuesday, October 20
10:30 am

Peer teaching

Peer review and feedback of math lesson plan 1:
Due Friday, November 2, 2009 at 5:30pm by e-mail to Michele and your peer reviewer

Service Learning: Mentoring of Science Experiments for EDU 246

Thursday, October 29, 2009 (from 4:15 to 5:45pm)
November 2009
SCI/MATH Class 1
Monday, November 2
10:30 am

Read: Barton: Chapter 4 & 5

Second hour: Topic: A Study of Teaching (timeline and details):
read in course packet: Chapter 5: Collecting Data in the Field
December 2009
SCI/MATH Class 2

Wednesday, December 2
1:30 pm

First Hour: Read in your course packet:
the nature of inclusion in a blue ribbon school

Second hour: Topic: Qualitative Methods
Read in the assignment section of CP on Researching Teaching: Qualitative Data Analysis
SCI/MATH Class 3
Monday, December 14
10:30 am
Research presentations to whole class
Math & Science notebook due for final check
Friday, December 18
Small group final exam

10:30-12:00 or 12:15-1:45 pm