MTH 213 - Fundamentals of Elementary Math III

MTH 95  or MTH 96  or designated placement.

Course Description: The third term of a three-term sequence designed to prepare pre-service elementary and middle school teachers for entrance into the Oregon teacher certification program. The course will study the topics of geometric shapes, measurement, triangle congruence and similarity, coordinate geometry, and transformational geometry.

Course Learning Outcomes:

• CLO#1: Use problem solving steps and problem solving strategies to understand, analyze and solve problems.
• CLO#2: Define and use the attributes of dimensionality, shape, angle, line and intersection to view our geometrical world and to solve problems.
• CLO#3: Define and use concepts of congruence and similarity to create geometric constructions, analyze these, and to solve problems.
• CLO#4: Define and explain the Cartesian coordinate system. Use the Cartesian coordinate system to create, analyze and solve problems.
• CLO#5: Define linear, area, surface area, and volume. Explain and use measurement formulas to solve problems. (ILO: Quantitative Literacy & Reasoning)
• CLO#6: Define and explain the metric system. Use metric measures to solve problems.
• CLO#7: Define translations, rotations, reflections, glide reflections and size transformations. Use these to analyze shapes and solve problems.
• CLO#8: Define and use symmetries to analyze and solve problems.
• CLO#9: Analyze and create tilings and tessellations of the plane and polyhedron nets using paper and pencil and appropriate software.
• CLO#10: Communicate and respond to mathematical conjectures by seeking verification using mathematical definitions, properties, and theorems. Respectfully provide counter example(s) for mathematical conjectures that are not correct.
• CLO#11: Develop, evaluate, and present elementary mathematical arguments (proofs) using properties and theorems developed in this course.