This course is primarily designed for mathematics teachers and students who are interested in becoming educators.
Objectives of this course
Discuss the role of problem solving in mathematics and mathematics education. In particular, participants will see how problem solving is integrated into state, national and international standards for mathematics education.
Help participants investigate ways in which they can use curriculum to enhance their students' problem solving abilities. Assessing the degree to which curricula address state problem solving standards, rather than an in depth analysis of various curricula, will be the focus.
Improve one's own problem solving ability. Participants will work on a variety of problems, including at least one very challenging one that they will look at in depth for most of the semester. While most students will not solve their challenging problem, they will learn a lot about problem solving and themselves through the pursuit.
Prepare to work with colleagues in participants' districts to share the acquired problem solving
knowledge from this course.
