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Description
Make connections between patterns and functions. Explore mathematical models and strategies to increase understanding of quantitative and qualitative relationships, including problem solving using the analysis of change.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the necessity for promoting algebraic thinking in arithmetic instruction.
- Identify ways to classify numbers, shapes, and objects by properties.
- Demonstrate how to develop pattern recognition.
- Identify ways to make generalizations about patterns.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the connection between patterns, relations and functions.
- Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of properties of operations used in arithmetic with multiple representations.
- Utilize concrete, pictorial, verbal, and symbolic representations of unknown quantities.
- Identify activities to relate using equations.
- Demonstrate an understanding of quantitative relationships in number operations.
- Recognize the value of modeling mathematics in the classroom.
- Identify problem situations that use various representations of quantitative relationships.
- Identify the algebraic thinking in qualitative change.
- Formalize the algebraic thinking in quantitative change.
- Discover the development of rate in grades K-8 and beyond.
Documentation Methods
Participants must document their learning by completing the following summative.
4 Reflections - Learner synthesizes previous knowledge and course content in
order to develop a narrative response.
The summative must meet 80% of the established criteria.
Course Last Updated: 2025