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MSE5102 Planning and Assessment in Secondary Mathematics
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Credit Points: 15
Prerequisites:
MSE5101 Teaching Lower Secondary Maths
 
Description:
This unit will consolidate ideas about the teaching and learning of lower secondary school mathematics, and will look at general curriculum planning and written assessment. This will be achieved this through further interrogation of the structure, philosophy and intentions of the Curriculum Framework, and by planning a sequence of lower school mathematics lessons within a particular topic, together with a comprehensive set of outcomes and a written assessment. Emphasis will be placed upon developing a mathematical inquiry theme in teaching and learning in the skill clusters of Number, Measurement, Chance and Data, Space, and Algebra (Years 7 -10). Current resources such as texts, calculators, visual aids, and some computer programs, will be examined and evaluated for their teaching effectiveness. Practical teaching strategies for overcoming common mathematical misconceptions will be explored, and the unit will focus upon the importance of classroom communication and meaningful, student-centred assessment practices, relating these ideas to relevant educational theory.

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Last Updated - Higher Education: 15/03/2014 VET: 14/05/2014