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

    Transition Mathematics: Geometric Thinking
  • Unit Code

    MPE6262
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christine Ann ORMOND

Description

This unit is designed to equip student teachers with the necessary skills to become confident teachers of geometric ideas in the lower secondary years. As well as building an understanding of the primary to secondary education transition, students will analyse the links and relationships the fundamental geometric and measurement concepts that need to be established by younger students before they may successfully embark on more abstract geometric concepts in their lower secondary secondary years.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MPE4262 and MPE5262

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain to colleagues and use in teaching the scope and sequence and expectations of the Australian Curriculum for mathematics in regard to relevant geometry and measurement concepts in Years 5 to 10.
  2. Critically reflect on the importance of geometric concepts to overall mathematical success in secondary school.
  3. Clearly articulate to colleagues the links between late primary geometric and measurement work and the expectations in lower secondary school mathematics , and employ these in teaching.
  4. Confidently prepare lessons that show expertise in the concepts of simple transformations on the Cartesian plane, circle geometry, Pythagorean ideas, basic trigonometry, and similarity and congruence principles.

Unit Content

  1. Upper primary geometric thinking and its articulation to Year 7 in regard to similarity, congruence, and two-dimensional shapes.
  2. Geometric concepts such as scale factor for two and three dimensional geometric shapes, and practical contexts.
  3. Geometric concepts such as areas of triangles, composite 2D geometric shapes, and circles.
  4. How geometric ideas are articulated and supported in the late primary years in the Australian Curriculum.
  5. Lower secondary geometric concepts (Years 7 to 10) and building geometric understanding using multiple strategies.
  6. Geometric concepts such as the Theorem of Pythagoras, simple trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine and tangent) in right-angled triangles, circle geometry involving angles, radii, and chords; and practical contexts for all of these.
  7. How geometric ideas are articulated and supported in the lower secondary years in the Australian Curriculum.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectTransition geometry teaching plan 50%
AssignmentYear 8 or 9 geometry lesson plan 50%

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

    Transition Mathematics: Geometric Thinking
  • Unit Code

    MPE6262
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christine Ann ORMOND

Description

This unit is designed to equip student teachers with the necessary skills to become confident teachers of geometric ideas in the lower secondary years. As well as building an understanding of the primary to secondary education transition, students will analyse the links and relationships the fundamental geometric and measurement concepts that need to be established by younger students before they may successfully embark on more abstract geometric concepts in their lower secondary secondary years.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MPE4262 and MPE5262

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain to colleagues and use in teaching the scope and sequence and expectations of the Australian Curriculum for mathematics in regard to relevant geometry and measurement concepts in Years 5 to 10.
  2. Critically reflect on the importance of geometric concepts to overall mathematical success in secondary school.
  3. Clearly articulate to colleagues the links between late primary geometric and measurement work and the expectations in lower secondary school mathematics , and employ these in teaching.
  4. Confidently prepare lessons that show expertise in the concepts of simple transformations on the Cartesian plane, circle geometry, Pythagorean ideas, basic trigonometry, and similarity and congruence principles.

Unit Content

  1. Upper primary geometric thinking and its articulation to Year 7 in regard to similarity, congruence, and two-dimensional shapes.
  2. Geometric concepts such as scale factor for two and three dimensional geometric shapes, and practical contexts.
  3. Geometric concepts such as areas of triangles, composite 2D geometric shapes, and circles.
  4. How geometric ideas are articulated and supported in the late primary years in the Australian Curriculum.
  5. Lower secondary geometric concepts (Years 7 to 10) and building geometric understanding using multiple strategies.
  6. Geometric concepts such as the Theorem of Pythagoras, simple trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine and tangent) in right-angled triangles, circle geometry involving angles, radii, and chords; and practical contexts for all of these.
  7. How geometric ideas are articulated and supported in the lower secondary years in the Australian Curriculum.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectTransition geometry teaching plan 50%
AssignmentYear 8 or 9 geometry lesson plan 50%

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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