Course: Mathematics in Primary Education

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Course title Mathematics in Primary Education
Course code USP/Z4MPV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tirpáková Anna, prof. RNDr. CSc.
Course content
- Number systems as a way of representing numbers. Positional, non-positional number systems, various notations of numbers. - Natural numbers and their position in number fields. - Writing natural numbers in the decimal system and counting in the decimal system. - Divisibility signs in the decimal system. Properties and divisibility criteria. - Other number systems. Converting the notation of a natural number from one number system to another. Counting in other number systems. - Fractions and positive rational numbers. - Addition and multiplication of positive rational numbers. - Arrangement of the set of positive rational numbers. - Subtraction and division of positive rational numbers. - Introduction to geometry. Euclid and his contribution, requirements for an axiomatic system. - Development of geometric imagination. Plane formations in primary education (point, line, semi-line, line segment) definition, types and construction of plane formations. - Planar shapes in primary education (square, rectangle, quadrilaterals, circle, circle) definition, types and construction of planar shapes. - Development of spatial imagination, orientation in space. Spatial formations (cube, cuboid, pyramid, cone, cylinder, sphere) definitions, types and construction of simple spatial formations. - Spatial formations, their observation, naming, common and different properties, determining the position of objects in space using simple expressions.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing), Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book), Activating (Simulation, games, dramatization), Practice exercises, Analysis of a presentation
  • Participation in classes - 42 hours per semester
  • Preparation for course credit - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for examination - 30 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 18 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
unspecified
unspecified
learning outcomes
explain the basics of number systems and the form of number representation
explain the basics of number systems and the form of number representation
define natural numbers
define natural numbers
define the basic concepts of geometry
define the basic concepts of geometry
define properties of spatial geometry
define properties of spatial geometry
Skills
convert numbers between number systems
convert numbers between number systems
describe properties and criteria of numbers divisibility
describe properties and criteria of numbers divisibility
display spatial formations
display spatial formations
teaching methods
Knowledge
Analysis of a presentation
Analysis of a presentation
Practice exercises
Practice exercises
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book)
Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book)
Activating (Simulation, games, dramatization)
Activating (Simulation, games, dramatization)
assessment methods
Didactic test
Didactic test
Written examination
Written examination
Recommended literature
  • Boboňová, I. & Tirpáková, A. Inclusion of Interdisciplinary Approach in the Mathematics Education of Biology Trainee Teachers in Slovakia. Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education. 2019.
  • Divíšek, F. a kol. Didaktika matematiky pro učitelství 1. stupně ZŠ. Praha, 1989.
  • Ficová, L. Možnosť identifikovania úrovne schopností žiakov primárneho matematického vzdelávania prostredníctvom testových úloh. Praha, 2015.
  • Hejný, M. Vyučování matematice orientované na budování schémat: aritmetika 1. stupně. Praha: UK., 2014.
  • Jirotková, D. Cesty ke zkvalitňování výuky geometrie. Praha: UK., 2010.
  • Kouřim, J. et al. Základy elementární geometrie pro učitelství 1. stupně ZŠ. Praha: SPN, 1985.
  • Kuřina, F., & kol. Matematika a porozumění světu. Praha, 2009.
  • Kuřina, F., & Půlpán, Z. Podivuhodný svět elementární matematiky. Praha: Akademia., 2006.
  • Kuřina, F. Deset pohledů na geometrii. Praha: Albra., 1996.
  • Molnár, J., Perný, J., & Stopenová, A. Prostorová pr?edstavivost a prostr?edky k jejímu rozvoji. Praha, 2006.
  • Partová, K. Prirodzené čísla. Bratislava: ASCO Art&Science., 2002.
  • Žilková, K., & Židek, O. Manipulačná geometria. Bratislava, 2013.
  • Žilková, K. Geometria. Trnava: PF Trnavská univerzita, 2013.


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