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Prengel Year
Course: Children experience joy in and joy with mathematics
Mathematics is fun at the primary level
Admission requirements
STEOP
Semester: 5 - Wahlpflichtfach
Orientation
Social peace
Aim
How children can be made to enjoy mathematics and computer science is the subject of this course, which develops methodological and didactic approaches. The course involves developing best practice examples that enable children to have successful, fear-free access to mathematics and computer science and support children with particular strengths in this area in the best possible way in their development. These are reflected upon in direct discussion with pupils.
Content
- Mathematics doesn’t have to be a dreaded subject
- Learning opportunities that particularly promote interest in mathematics (e.g. competitions, open tasks, games)
- Creation of best practice examples
- Recognise and promote special strengths and talents in mathematics
- Linking mathematics and computer science in an age-appropriate manner
- First steps in coding and robotics
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The graduates ...
- reflect on why mathematics is often associated with anxiety in pupils
- are familiar with methodical and didactic offers that allow children a fear-free access to mathematics
- engage with opportunities such as competitions in mathematics
- make use of the joy that can arise from a playful approach to and handling of mathematics
- are able to develop tasks that make mathematics fun for children.
- are able to encourage children to develop their own tasks in which they can contribute their individual potentials in the best possible way
- can link mathematics and computer science and thereby guide critical engagement by pupils
- are able to didactically prepare the first steps in the area of coding and robotics.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Informational education
- Economic and consumer education
- Social-emotional learning
- Diversity/inclusion
Teaching and learning methods
Seminar work with workshop character
Languages
German, English
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Scientific discipline / subject didactics
Type of course
Teaching/learning workshop (pi)
Type of assessment
participated with/without success
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance
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