Unit of study_

EDSE4231: Teaching Mathematics 3A

2026 unit information

This is the third unit of study in a suite of concurrent mathematics curriculum units. In this unit, students will consider how discipline knowledge is organised, taught, and experienced across the secondary school years. The unit will emphasise the integration of knowledge within and across mathematics and consider the role teachers play in facilitating curriculum pedagogy that consider the subject and connect to students’ lives. This unit will provide students with the practical and theory-informed knowledge required to respond to the needs of diverse learners in mathematics.

Unit details and rules

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Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Education
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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EDSE3132
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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EDSE4028
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Demonstrate understanding of the complex role of curriculum in school settings, and apply relevant policies, procedures and protocols when working with syllabus documents.
  • LO2. Critically analyse and evaluate teaching and learning resources that enhance students’ learning in disciplinary contexts.
  • LO3. Describe how knowledge of mathematics education recognises the agentic role of curriculum when it is co constructed with learners, leaders and community.
  • LO4. Display increasing competence in teaching, planning, and assessing in ways that meet the needs of diverse learners who are progressing to a variety of post-school pathways.
  • LO5. Incorporate the needs and interests of students from a range of social, ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds including the importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students that takes this into account in authentic ways.
  • LO6. Describe the importance of engaging in continual and reflective professional dialogue and demonstrate an understanding of the rationale for continual professional learning in mathematics.

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Semester 1 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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