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MATH 123 - Math for Elementary School Teachers

3 credits
A course designed for students in the Childhood Education curriculum. It investigates the practical context of the mathematics taught in elementary school and the reasoning behind its skills and methods. Topic include numbers and numeration, place value, arithmetic operations and algorithms, estimation, prime numbers and factoring, and may also include fractions decimals, proportional thinking, and negative numbers. Emphasis is on problem-solving and communication in mathematics.

Prerequisites: MATH 93 Beginning Algebra , or MATH 94 Mathematical Literacy for College Students , or an Elementary Algebra placement test score of 55 or higher, or Math SAT score of 450, or MATH ACT score of 16.