ESM725 - Mathematics Curriculum Inquiry Senior Years

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Jill Brown
Cohort rule:

This unit is only available to students enrolled in D304, D351, E377, E760, E763 or E765

Prerequisite:

Students enrolled in course E763 or E765 commencing 2020, must pass unit EEE754 plus 1 unit from EEE755, EEE756, EPR731, EPR751, EPR781

Students enrolled in course D351 or E377 must have completed either ESM424 or ESM724

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: EME425, ESM225, ESM425
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 1 hour lecture per week (pre-recorded) and 1 x 2 hour seminar per week, per non-placement teaching weeks which vary across courses. 

Attendance at the seminar is critical to learning to teach, lecture engagement is scheduled at any time prior to the seminar which builds on the lecture.

Time engaging in learning activities is expected to total a combined equivalent of 8-10 hours per week. Other than lecture and seminar, some learning activities are directed by the unit chair, others determined by students own needs.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

1 x 1 hour lecture per week (pre-recorded) and 1 x 2 hour seminar per week, per non-placement teaching weeks which vary across courses. 

Attendance at the seminar is critical to learning to teach, lecture engagement is scheduled at any time prior to the seminar which builds on the lecture.

Time engaging in learning activities is expected to total a combined equivalent of 8-10 hours per week. Other than lecture and seminar, some learning activities are directed by the unit chair, others determined by students own needs.

Note:

Student Equipment Purchases:

Learning experiences and assessment activities in this unit require that students have access to a CAS-enabled calculator throughout the Trimester

Content

The unit simultaneously examines senior secondary years mathematics education as outlined in the senior secondary curriculum in Victoria and teaching approaches that optimise student learning of that content through inquiry.

Attention is paid to developing teacher ability to sequence mathematical topics to increase student opportunities to think autonomously; to strengthen the connections they make between areas of mathematical content, and the contexts to which this mathematics applies.

Assessment procedures are examined for the purpose of identifying how to increase student learning by progressive monitoring, and how to best assist students to meet assessment requirements. Design of assessment tasks is considered in the light of ways to monitor ongoing learning and how to assess in the second last year of schooling in ways that prepare students for assessment in their last year of secondary school.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Understand what it means to 'understand mathematics'

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Analyse literature to identify important pedagogical aspects, useful tasks, difficulties students encounter learning mathematics, and communicate your new understandings to others

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO3

Work collaboratively to examine assessment tasks to identify what mathematical understandings they test, and communicate this analysis to others

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO7: Teamwork

ULO4

Analyse assessment data to find what mathematical understandings require further attention, and plan lesson sequences to address this

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO5

Identify and design tasks to increase mathematical understandings in particular areas, and communicate your rationale for task selection/design to others

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO6

Implement mathematical problem-solving tasks in ways that elicit autonomous student thinking associated with constructing deep mathematical understandings

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - (Individual and  Group) Teaching for Understanding 2000 words 40% total
(Individual 25%  Group 15%)
Week 5
Assessment 2 - (Individual and  Group) Review of the Curriculum 3000 words 60% total
(Individual 35%  Group 25%)
Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.

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