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Mathematics and Language Education (B-KUL-P0L36A)

5 ECTSEnglish26 First term
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POC Bachelor Pedagogische wetenschappen

Aims

Literacy and numeracy are essential skills to be able to fully function in current society. After completing this course, the students have obtained the following objectives:

  • Students acquire knowledge of research results regarding teaching and learning elementary language and mathematics skills.
  • Students acquire insight into the theory and the practice of teaching and educating language and mathematics skills, primarily with children form regular primary schools.
  • Students develop instrumental research skills to interpret, evaluate and optimize educational material concerning mathematics or language.
  • Students develop the skills to relate research results in the domain of elementary mathematics and language education to the current educational practices, and to critically evaluate educational practices.
  • Students develop an interest regarding developments in language and mathematics educational research.

Previous knowledge

Basic knowledge about theory and methods of learning and instruction.

Identical courses

This course is identical to the following courses:
P0S26A : Taal- en wiskundedidactiek

Is included in these courses of study

Activities

5 ects. Mathematics and Language Education: Lectures (B-KUL-P0R44a)

5 ECTSEnglishFormat: Lecture26 First term
Torbeyns Joke |  Van Dooren Wim |  Torbeyns Joke (substitute)
POC Bachelor Pedagogische wetenschappen

Content

After a critical discussion on the different visions of mathematics education, there is an exemplary treatment for the mathematics component of recent research and development work on a number of subjects from the mathematics programme from primary schools, such as: elementary basic skills; mental arithmetic, estimation and calculations; word problems; ratio and proportion, graphical literacy, and rational numbers. In the language component, after an introductory chapter on developments in the vision on and the approach to language didactics in general, the following topics are addressed: literacy, reading and spelling; reading comprehension and text composition; children’s literature; linguistics. Each of the subparts will be dealt with attainment targets, current instructional practices, and recent research and development work in this domain.

Course material

The syllabus includes a reader that contains articles, chapters, etc from both theoretical as well as practice-aimed publications. The content of this reader changes every year.

Format: more information

During the lectures, the following teaching and learning activities take place:

  • Clarify: situate texts, explain obscurities, determine own position;
  • Illustrate: mathematical methods, tests, lesson observations, interviews, software;
  • Apply: reflection on own mathematical work, assess of learning means, make an error diagnosis;
  • Prepare: by means of illustrative exam questions.

Evaluation

Evaluation: Mathematics and Language Education (B-KUL-P2L36a)

Type : Exam during the examination period
Description of evaluation : Written
Type of questions : Multiple choice, Open questions, Closed questions
Learning material : Course material, Calculator, Reference work

Explanation


The exam is on 20 points. The knowledge of and the insight into the offered information is evaluated, as well as the ability to apply it when interpreting and evaluating the didactic practice. The exam is a written open book exam consisting of open questions, short-answer questions and multiple choice questions (with correction for guessing) about the lessons. For the open book exam the students are allowed to use all course materials on paper, they are not allowed to use digitalized material.