Course: School Mathematics Seminar

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Course title School Mathematics Seminar
Course code KMT/BKSŠM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + On-line Activities
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Dofková Radka, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Topics: 1) Transmissive and constructive approaches to education. A pupil and a teacher in mathematical education. 2) Content of mathematical teaching (curriculum, educational standard, framework, school framework, key competences, integration of subjects). 3) Mathematical tasks at primary schools, classification and typology of tasks, solution methods. Textbooks of mathematics, its use in education process. 4) Pupil in mathematical education ( talented and underachieving pupil, education of pupils with special needs). Methods and forms, tools for developing pupil?s personality.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
This course offers an overview of current mathematics teaching conceptions and it provides an analysis of the reflection of these conceptions in current mathematical education at basic schools.
The subject enables to gain basic competencies to reflect own mathematical teaching at primary schools and to compare theoretical knowledge with educational reality.
Prerequisites
The successful completion of the course is conditioned by the mastery of basic mathematical skills and by the ability of the student to apply the aforementioned skills within the context of didactics.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio

Activities in seminars, handing in a portfolio by a given deadline.
Recommended literature
  • HEJNÝ, M. aj. Teória vyučovania matematiky 2. Bratislava: SPN 1990.
  • HEJNÝ, M., KUŘINA, F. Dítě, škola a matematika. Praha: Portál 2001.
  • PASCH, M. aj. Od vzdělávacího programu k vyučovací hodině. Praha: Portál 1998.
  • PETTY, G. Moderní vyučování. Praha: Portál 2002.
  • Kuřina, F. a kol. (2009). Matematika a porozumění světu.. Praha:Academia.
  • Novák, B. e-learningový modul v LMS Unifor.


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