UMKC Department of Mathematics and Statistics

MATH 5524 - Mathematics for Secondary Teachers:
Geometry
(3 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: Offered: Winter, simultaneously with Math 424
Text: Current Mathematics Textbooks
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Note: This course is new to UMKC starting 2006, so its catalog description is included below. This course is part of an expanded sequence of courses designed 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 NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) and the MAA (Mathematical Association of America).

Description: Designed for secondary-school teachers. Examine high school mathematics from a higher point of view. Congruence, distance and similarity, trigonometry, area and volume, axiomatics and Euclidean geometry; analyses of alternate approaches, extensions, and applications of mathematical ideas, discussion of historical contexts and connections between ideas that may have been studied separately in different courses, relationships of ideas studied in secondary-school to those students may encounter in later study.

Note for Graduate students: This course is the same as Math 424, except that an extra project is required. That project will be one of the following sorts:

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