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Didactics of Mathematics in Secondary School

Course code

MLM7105.DT

old course code

MLM7105

Course title in Estonian

Gümnaasiumi matemaatika õpetamise metoodika

Course title in English

Didactics of Mathematics in Secondary School

ECTS credits

3.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To give an overview of didactical questions related to teaching of mathematics at high-school level and beyond.

Brief description of the course

General description of the secondary mathematics curriculum. Curricula for different types of high school. The extension of the notion of real number: rational and irrational numbers. Real numbers in everyday life, approximate computations. Methodology of teaching of equations and inequalities. Elements of vector calculus and trigonometry in gymnasium. Coordinate method, equations of several curves. Elementary functions. Notions of limit, derivative and integral, their applications. Statistics and theory of probability in secondary school. Straight lines and planes in 3-dimensional space. State examinations in mathematics and their effect for teaching mathematics.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
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Teacher

Madis Lepik

Prerequisite course 1

Didactics of Mathematics in Basic School (MLM7104.DT)

Study programmes containing that course