Academic Calendar 2015/2016 - Fundamentals of Arithmetic for Teachers

MATH 1070  Fundamentals of Arithmetic for Teachers

Prerequisites:

Any 3U or 3M Mathematics or MATH 1911 or MATH 1912.

Restrictions:

MATH 1070 may not be credited towards a program in mathematics.

Hours:

Three hours of lecture and one hour of tutorial per week.

Credits:

6

Description:

This course is primarily intended for those students planning to become elementary school teachers. Topics covered include: logic; set theory; relations and operations on a set; structure and properties of the whole number system and whole number arithmetic, including modular arithmetic; structure and properties of the integer system and integer arithmetic; structure and properties of the rational number system and rational number arithmetic; structure and properties of the real number system and real number arithmetic. Applications and examples from the field of elementary mathematics education are also included.