School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Curriculum Perspectives: Number and Chance and Data
  • Unit Code

    EMT5000
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit, for graduate teachers who wish to re-train in the teaching of mathematics from Year 7 to Year 10, will position lower secondary mathematics curricula against some essential upper school content knowledge necessary for good teaching. It thus teaches some necessary mathematics content skills, and also provides a refresher and a consolidation of previously held skills. In this unit, a minimum level of competence in Year 10A mathematics content in the Australian Curriculum strands of Statistics and Probability, and some aspects of Number and Algebra and Measurement and Geometry, will be sought. Students will be encouraged to reach the highest mathematical level of which they are individually capable, in order to best place them for teaching lower secondary mathematics.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Lecture/workshops are available on the Blackboard site and in a downloadable format.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Solve mathematics problems involving most aspects of the associated and relevant curriculum content in the WACE Mathematics (General) Course of Study Stage 2 units, and some of Stage 3A and 3B units (corresponding to at least Levels 6 to 7 of the Curriculum Framework).
  2. Use the vocabulary and concepts of the Australian Curriculum at at least Year 10A, particularly as this relates to Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability.

Unit Content

  1. Chance and Data: exploring further statistical data: representation and interpretation.
  2. Chance and Data: focusing on probability: quantification, and representation and interpretation.
  3. Number and its conceptual development through financial mathematics.
  4. Space: exploring the ideas in network theory.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will participate in workshops, discussions, co-operative group work, professional reading, independent study, and use of multi-media technology.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestTest 140%
ProjectBudgeting Module20%
TestTest 240%

Text References

  • ^ Garner, S. (2012). Maths for the Australian curriculum advanced 10+10A. South Melbourne, Australia: Cengage Learning Australia.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Curriculum Perspectives: Number and Chance and Data
  • Unit Code

    EMT5000
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit, for graduate teachers who wish to re-train in the teaching of mathematics from Year 7 to Year 10, will position lower secondary mathematics curricula against some essential upper school content knowledge necessary for good teaching. It thus teaches some necessary mathematics content skills, and also provides a refresher and a consolidation of previously held skills. In this unit, a minimum level of competence in Year 10A mathematics content in the Australian Curriculum strands of Statistics and Probability, and some aspects of Number and Algebra and Measurement and Geometry, will be sought. Students will be encouraged to reach the highest mathematical level of which they are individually capable, in order to best place them for teaching lower secondary mathematics.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Lecture/workshops are available on the Blackboard site and in a downloadable format.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Solve mathematics problems involving most aspects of the associated and relevant curriculum content in the WACE Mathematics (General) Course of Study Stage 2 units, and some of Stage 3A and 3B units (corresponding to at least Levels 6 to 7 of the Curriculum Framework).
  2. Use the vocabulary and concepts of the Australian Curriculum at at least Year 10A, particularly as this relates to Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability.

Unit Content

  1. Chance and Data: exploring further statistical data: representation and interpretation.
  2. Chance and Data: focusing on probability: quantification, and representation and interpretation.
  3. Number and its conceptual development through financial mathematics.
  4. Space: exploring the ideas in network theory.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will participate in workshops, discussions, co-operative group work, professional reading, independent study, and use of multi-media technology.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestTest 140%
ProjectBudgeting Module20%
TestTest 240%

Text References

  • ^ Garner, S. (2012). Maths for the Australian curriculum advanced 10+10A. South Melbourne, Australia: Cengage Learning Australia.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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