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7. Check List: BA in Math Education

University Requirements

ENGL110, Critical Reading and Writing (3) (minimum grade C-)

First Year Experience (0-4)

Discovery Learning Experience (3) (EDUC400, a required course, satisfies this requirement).

Three credits in an approved course or courses stressing multicultural, ethnic, and/or gender-related
content (EDUC419, a required course, satisfies this requirement).

College Requirements

Three credits writing course (after completion of 60 credits) (MATH308, required for the major,
satisfies this requirement if taken after completion of 60 credits)

Foreign language 107 or 112 (or, for students with more than 4 years of high school foreign language
or the equivalent, satisfactory performance on a proficiency test in that language)

Nine credits in Group A

Nine credits in Group B (MATH308, required for the major, is in this group)

Nine credits in Group C

Ten credits in Group D, (PHYS207 and MATH210, required courses, a Computer Science course
CISC105 or CISC106, and MATH241 are four of the Group D courses)

Department Major Requirements (C- or better required for all courses)

MATH210, Discrete Mathematics I (3)

MATH242, Analytic Geometry and Calculus B (4)

MATH243, Analytic Geometry and Calculus C (4)

MATH245, An Introduction to Proof (3)

MATH308, Historical Development of Mathematical Concepts and Ideas (3)

MATH349, Elementary Linear Algebra (3)

MATH350, Probability Theory and Simulation Methods (3)

MATH302, Ordinary Differential Equations (3), or
MATH315, Discrete Mathematics II (3), or
MATH401, Introduction to Real Analysis (3), or
MATH508, Introduction to Complex Variables and Applications (3)

MATH450, Mathematical Statistics (3)

MATH451, Abstract Algebra I (3)

MATH518, Mathematical Models and Application (3) (or another modeling course)

MATH540, Geometry (3)

Educational Requirements (C- or better required for all courses)

Note: All teacher education candidates must meet established criteria for admission into upper-division professional education study. These criteria include: minimum cumulative grade point average; minimum grade point average in courses within their major; successful completion (grade of C- or better) of prerequisite courses and field experiences; and passing scores, as established by the University Council on Teacher Education, on Praxis I.

For students starting Fall 2000 or later

EDUC419, Diversity in Secondary Education (3)

EDUC413, Adolescent Development and Educational Psychology (4)

EDUC414, Teaching Exceptional Adolescents (3)

MATH279, Problem Solving Strategies I (1)

MATH379, Problem Solving Strategies (1)

MATH380, Approaches to Teaching Mathematics (3)

MATH382, Student Teaching Seminar in Secondary Math (2)

EDUC420, Readings in the Content Areas (1)

EDUC400, Student Teaching (9)

Required Related Work (C- or better required for all courses)

CISC105, General Computer Science (3) or
CISC181, Introduction to Computer Science (3)

PHYS207, Fundamentals of Physics I (4)

Required Outside Work

required 79 credits other than in MATH courses

Minimum Number of Credits

total of at least 124 credits

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