This course is a balanced study between theoretical researched-based foundations and applications of statistical methods for analyses of quantitative and qualitative research data.
The course will provide students opportunities to develop their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and skills to design, enact and evaluate ICT-based lessons using a variety of ICT tools that support different teaching and learning strategies. Students will gain enough computer knowledge such as Office Suite, EndNotes, Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis software to complete their thesis and oral examination
The course aims to provide a detailed study and evaluation of recent research developments within the fields of learning, perception and cognition, and guide students to consider the implications of these recent advances on mathematics instruction. Specifically, the models of strategies of learning and teaching that will be developed in the course will enable students to put some of the advanced ideas in learning to the test by tackling some real problems encountered in the day to day life of the mathematics teacher.
The course is intended to deal with the assessment of cognitive, psychomotor and affective development of students and perspectives of assessment of mathematics teaching and learning
This course is designed to expose students to contemporary issues in curriculum studies and development in mathematics education. The opportunity will be given to students to engage in some of the current complicated discourses in curriculum development, implementation, supervision and evaluation.
The course will examine various philosophies of mathematics and their implications for their definitions of mathematics, the development of mathematics, the structure and nature of some branches of mathematics, abstraction, symbolism, induction, deduction, mathematical logic, proofs and models in mathematics
This course introduces students to elementary vector algebra and its applications in solving routine problems in geometry and mechanics
This course will offer the opportunity for students to learn issues relating to the Senior High School curriculum
It is designed to expose students to mathematical problem solving techniques. It will also help students to use their experiences to examine theories of problem solving abilities in mathematics. Appropriate pedagogical techniques for a mathematical problem solving at specific grade and ability levels would be examined. The course will also explore the incorporation of problem solving in school mathematics curriculum and will consequently help students to deliver the secondary school mathematics syllabus appropriately in future, since nearly all topics in the syllabus include solving word problems as activities.
The course will examine algebra of sets, relation, mapping and functions. It will also examine the techniques of differentiation applied to various functions.
The course is designed to build upon students’ Algebra and Calculus already learnt at SHS and also to introduce them to some additional topics that are prerequisite for
higher courses in Algebra as well as Calculus
