Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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MATH 116 - Foundations of Arithmetic for Elementary Teachers


This course is the one of two courses designed for K-8 pre-service teachers to address the conceptual framework for mathematics taught in elementary school. Topics covered include problem-solving techniques, whole numbers and numeration, set theory, elementary number theory, integers, rational numbers, ratios, proportions, decimals, and percents. This is not a “methods-in-teaching” course. Advising information: A student is ready for this course if they have had any of the following: College credit with a C- or better in MATH 108  or any college level math or statistics course (Simpson, transfer, dual credit, etc., includes stats course from Econ, Biol, Psyc, and Soc departments), AP stats score of 3 or higher, ACT math of 18 or higher, SAT math of 500 or higher or four years of high school math that includes Algebra 2 or equivalent with a C or better.

Credit(s): 4
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 114  OR
Corequisite(s): EDUC 114  
General Education Designations: Quantitative Reasoning
Offered: fall semesters.



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