Mathematics Education (MS)

Students in this program have the opportunity to study deep, rich mathematics and to connect this to the mathematics they teach. All students in this program take Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra; these courses extend, deepen and abstract the ideas of arithmetic, school algebra and calculus. All students also take Algebraic Structures in School Mathematics and Geometric Structures in School Mathematics, courses which make explicit links between the abstract mathematics in the program and the mathematics taught in K-12 schools.

Our math education faculty includes professors with research and instructional interests in data analysis, geometry, rational number, number sense and algebra in grades K-16, and with teaching experience in middle school, high school and college in this country and in Taiwan. Our faculty are interested in supporting the transition of practicing teachers from teaching K-12 mathematics to being students of advanced mathematics.