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Complete list of specialization courses in Mathematics (MA, MS, PhD)
EDUC 7XX: Mathematics Curriculum: Research and Development
This course investigates the intended and implemented school mathematics curriculum, its sources, history, and improvement models, with a particular emphasis on the U. S. and grades K-12, but also including postsecondary curriculum, international perspectives, and historical analyses. The course examines topics such as relationships between curriculum development and research, key curriculum policy documents, alternative theoretical orientations to curriculum, disciplinary foundations of mathematics and their connections with school curriculum, and the implementation of curriculum.
EDUC 7YY: The Study of Mathematical Thinking and Learning
This course examines research on children's and adults' understanding and reasoning in mathematics; alternative perspectives on how children and adults learn mathematics and on how to account for what they know and learn; different main traditions of theory and research on mathematics learning. Topics may include theoretical and research issues on mathematical thinking and learning from cognitive, constructivist, sociocultural, or situated perspectives; historical development of research on mathematics learning, theoretical perspectives on mathematics learning developed within the mathematics education community.
EDUC 7ZZ: The Study of Mathematics Instruction
This course introduces graduate students to the study of teaching and learning mathematics in classrooms. Topics include historical and comparative analyses of practice, approaches to the study of instruction, and theoretical and scholarly perspectives on instruction developed within and outside the mathematics education community. The course probes ways in which the work of mathematics teaching has been recorded, understood, and appraised, and how these perspectives influence conceptions of and approaches to teacher education and development.
EDUC 711: Research in Mathematics Education
This course acquaints doctoral students with a diverse sample of empirical studies in mathematics education, as well as with controversial contemporary issues being debated within the community. The course focuses on clusters of problems that mathematics education researchers investigate or have investigated, examining objects and methods of study. Students will develop familiarity with literature in mathematics education, as well as with approaches to selecting and defining significant directions for research. The course provides students with understanding of the history of mathematics education research and its relationships with mathematics education and educational research.
EDUC 657: Practicum in Mathematics Education
This is a guided opportunity in two significant contexts of mathematics education. Examples include work in a course for prospective teachers of mathematics, in a professional development program, on a curriculum or assessment development project, on a research project, or on a policy committee or project. Students work closely with faculty members, gaining access to their thinking about the work, and developing associated practices, issues, knowledge and skills. The practica may be taken before or following candidacy.
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