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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Lower Secondary Maths
  • Unit Code

    MSE6101
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Vesife HATISARU

Description

This unit introduces or consolidates best practice in the teaching and learning of lower secondary school mathematics (Years 7 to 10). The fundamentals of learning theory will be practically applied to the specific teaching of mathematics. Activities for promoting classroom participation will be introduced, and students will have opportunity to plan a variety of mathematics lessons, assessments and activities consistent with the Curriculum Framework outcome statements. The development of an appreciation of mathematics as a useful and creatively interesting area of study by regularly incorporating mathematical investigation in the classroom, and by focusing on developing mathematical literacy. Useful teaching resources and tools will be demonstrated and their classroom application explored. The mathematical content covered will include all seven clusters of the Curriculum Framework. Reference will also be made to important mathematical concepts established in the late primary years.

Equivalent Rule

.Unit was previously coded MSE5101, MSE5111.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Justify the importance of open ended investigations for promoting significant learning in lower secondary mathematics students.
  2. Critically reflect upon the differences between traditional and more student-centred teaching approaches in lower secondary mathematics, with a view to establishing the most effective pedagogical practices according to current research.
  3. Plan and rationalise summative and formative assessment items for use in a lower secondary mathematics environment.
  4. Plan mathematics lessons that embody the meaningful use of a variety of teaching strategies and learning tools, and which include engaging and relevant lesson introductions and effective conclusions.

Unit Content

  1. A guided process of familiarization the Australian Curriculum for mathematics.
  2. Lesson planning and its key components.
  3. How to employ a variety of assessment strategies, both for the purposes of ongoing instruction and the continuous evaluation of student progress.
  4. How to access available and relevant teaching resources.
  5. Teaching and learning using mathematical investigations, and historical features of mathematics.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
ReportWorking Mathematically60%
AssignmentBest practice for student learning40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Lower Secondary Maths
  • Unit Code

    MSE6101
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Vesife HATISARU

Description

This unit introduces or consolidates best practice in the teaching and learning of lower secondary school mathematics (Years 7 to 10). The fundamentals of learning theory will be practically applied to the specific teaching of mathematics. Activities for promoting classroom participation will be introduced, and students will have opportunity to plan a variety of mathematics lessons, assessments and activities consistent with the Curriculum Framework outcome statements. The development of an appreciation of mathematics as a useful and creatively interesting area of study by regularly incorporating mathematical investigation in the classroom, and by focusing on developing mathematical literacy. Useful teaching resources and tools will be demonstrated and their classroom application explored. The mathematical content covered will include all seven clusters of the Curriculum Framework. Reference will also be made to important mathematical concepts established in the late primary years.

Equivalent Rule

.Unit was previously coded MSE5101, MSE5111.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Justify the importance of open ended investigations for promoting significant learning in lower secondary mathematics students.
  2. Critically reflect upon the differences between traditional and more student-centred teaching approaches in lower secondary mathematics, with a view to establishing the most effective pedagogical practices according to current research.
  3. Plan and rationalise summative and formative assessment items for use in a lower secondary mathematics environment.
  4. Plan mathematics lessons that embody the meaningful use of a variety of teaching strategies and learning tools, and which include engaging and relevant lesson introductions and effective conclusions.

Unit Content

  1. A guided process of familiarization the Australian Curriculum for mathematics.
  2. Lesson planning and its key components.
  3. How to employ a variety of assessment strategies, both for the purposes of ongoing instruction and the continuous evaluation of student progress.
  4. How to access available and relevant teaching resources.
  5. Teaching and learning using mathematical investigations, and historical features of mathematics.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
ReportWorking Mathematically60%
AssignmentBest practice for student learning40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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