Courses |
Objective |
CUIN 1101
Teaching Science and Math-STEP 1
Prerequisites: None |
Lecture part of the course focuses on methods of teaching science and mathematics in schools. There is a field-based component that requires students to observe and teach science and math activities in elementary school classrooms. |
CUIN 1102
Teaching Science and Math-STEP 2
Prerequisites: CUIN 1101 |
Lecture part of the course focuses on methods of teaching science and mathematics in schools. There is a field-based component that requires students to observe and teach science and math activities in middle school classrooms. |
CUIN 3350
Knowing and Learning Science and Math
Prerequisites: CUIN 1101 |
This course covers a variety of theories and frameworks addressing how people come to know in mathematics and science related domains. Types of scientific and mathematical thinking and possible roles which might be played by the teacher and learner within each approach are developed. |
CUIN 3351
Classroom Interactions in Science and Math
Prerequisites: CUIN 1101 and 3350 |
This field-based course focuses on multiple models of teaching, what each model requires of teachers, and the corresponding impact on interactions that occur in mathematics and science classrooms. It attends to how content and pedagogy combine to address equity and diversity issues in classroom teaching to insure that all students have an opportunity to learn. |
CUIN 3352
Perspectives on Science and Mathematics
Prerequisites: CUIN 1101 |
This course introduces prospective mathematics and science teachers to the historical, social, and philosophical implications of mathematics and science advances which occurred during three significant episodes in history. |
CUIN 4350
Multiple Teaching Strategies in Science and Math
Prerequisites: CUIN 3351 |
coming soon. |
IDNS 3350
Research Methods in Science and Math
Prerequisites: CUIN 1102 and 3350 |
In this course students perform four independent inquiries and learn to combine skills from mathematics and science to solve research problems in the manner of active scientists, mathematicians, and computer scientists. |
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