Department of Mathematics
Mathematics Secondary Education Concentration
Transfer Student Policy
Only courses
approved by the Department of Mathematics may be applied to a major
or minor program offered by the department. If a student submits
mathematics units that are more than five years old at the time
of admission or readmission, the chair, after reviewing these
records, may require that some courses be repeated or that a new
course be substituted.
Secondary
education mathematics majors are required to take MATH 423, MATH
426, MATH 428 (see course descriptions below), and at least
four (4) additional upper-division courses in their mathematics
major program at Towson University.
- MATH 423
TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS (3 units)
- Examination of
courses of study and textbooks, study of methods of teaching.
- Prerequisites:
MATH 267 and MATH 353, or consent of instructor. (Open only
to students in the student teaching block. This course shall be offered
only in the spring term to be followed by MATH 426 during the
fall.)
- MATH 426
STUDENT TEACHING IN SECONDARY EDUCATION-MATHEMATICS (12 units)
- Field experience
in public school classrooms under the guidance of master teachers and a
university supervisor.
- Prerequisites:
PSYC 201, SCED 319 or SCED 341, SCED 460, SPED 301, MATH 423
and written permission from the Center of Applied Skills in Education.
- MATH 428
SENIOR SEMINAR MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (2 units)
- Integration
of mathematical knowledge and pedagogical issues in secondary
schools.
- Prerequisites:
Senior standing and MATH 423, which may be taken concurrently.
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