UMKC Department of Mathematics and Statistics Math 224 Mathematics for Teachers: Geometry

UMKC Department of Mathematics and Statistics

MATH 224 - Mathematics for Teachers:
Geometry
(3 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites:

Math 110 (College Algebra), and

Math 130 (Mathematics for Teachers: Number Systems) are required.
Math 140 (Mathematics for Teachers: Elementary Geometry) is recommended.
Offered: Fall
Text: Current Mathematics Textbooks
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This course is new to UMKC starting 2007, so its catalog description is included below.
This course is part of an expanded sequence of courses designed by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics to provide a substantial and appropriate mathematical education to prospective (or working) elementary-, middle-, and secondary school teachers, and is motivated by recent reports from both the MAA (Mathematical Association of America).
Description: Designed for middle-school mathematics teachers to connect middle school and college mathematics. Geometric reasoning, Euclidean geometry, congruence, area and volume, similarity, rigid motions and symmetry, vectors and transformations, some other geometries.
Textbook: "Geometry Connections", by John Beem, Mathematics Dept. University of Missouri - Columbia, published by Prentice Hall in August 2005. This text is a product of the Connecting Middle School and College Mathematics NSF project, 2001-2004, to strengthen and improve the mathematics preparation of middle school mathematics teachers.

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Institute for Urban Education middle-school teacher programs
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