Learning and Teaching Mathematics

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Societal and organisational structures (including international comparisons) and purposes of educational systems (e.g. the national curriculum), and the possible implications for learners and the learning process within Mathematics Education.
• The complexity of the interaction between learning and contexts, and the range of ways in which participants (including learners and teachers) can influence the learning process within mathematics education.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Articulate your own approaches to learning and organise an effective work pattern including working to deadlines.
• Collaborate and plan as part of a team, to carry out roles allocated by the team and take the lead where appropriate, and to fulfil agreed responsibilities.
• Organise and articulate opinions and arguments in speech, writing and other appropriate media using relevant specialist vocabulary.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Systematically analyse educational concepts, theories and issues of policy relating to mathematics education.
• Select and apply a range of relevant theoretical and research-based evidence (primary and secondary sources), to extend your knowledge and understanding of mathematics education.
• Locate and justify your personal position in relation to mathematics education research and theories.
• Identify and reflect critically across aspects of mathematics education and their application in educational contexts and policies.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Reflective Journal

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.