Future teachers need to advance their conceptual understanding of mathematics, ability to think mathematically and learn how to convey these skills to high school students. In the innovative course “Mathematics for Teachers” these goals are attained through developing specific types of knowledge (basic concepts in education, knowledge of mathematical proof and reasoning, process of mathematical thinking, mathematical language), skills (problem-solving, interpersonal) and ability to see connections within mathematics to other subjects and to the real world. Future teachers explore concepts by “doing mathematics in a similar way, as their own students” and by working on topics connected to the school curriculum through tasks that are challenging at a university level. Student have the unique opportunity not only to learn basic educational concepts, but also apply them to teaching mathematics to freshman university students in the form of review modules, seminars virtual tutorials and lectures on history of mathematics.
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