Primarily Math's first course coming to Beatrice
Primarily Math's MATH 800P: Number and Operation for K-3 Math Specialists
Math 800P is the first course offered in the highly successful Primarily Math program of the NebraskaMATH grant at UNL, and it is coming to Beatrice as part of the Nebraska Math and Science Summer Institutes.
Math 800P (Class Number 8603) will be held June 2-6 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at ESU 5, 900 W Court St in Beatrice. The audience is grades K-3 teachers.
This course will strengthen teachers’ conceptual knowledge of number and operation in the K-3 mathematics curriculum. The course connects the intuitive mathematical understandings that children bring to school and links them to an understanding of place value in the K-3 curriculum. The significance of base 10 in our place value system, along with its role in arithmetic operations and their properties is a major emphasis of the course. Primarily Math courses have proven to make a positive impact on the mathematical knowledge of teachers and on student learning.
The instructor will be Jason Vitosh, Noyce Master Teacher, of Falls City Public Schools.
Advantages of the NMSSI program:
* Current Nebraska teachers qualify for a 20 percent discount on in-state tuition at UNL
* Teachers can apply for a tuition fellowship from the NMSSI
* Free lunch will be provided each day of class
Contact Peggy Crawford at ESU 5 (pcrawfor@esu5.org) if you are planning on registering for the course. See the NMSSI website for steps on how to register. Direct any questions about UNL and fellowships to laugustyn2@unl.edu.
For more information on how to register, apply for fellowships and review the other NMSSI courses across the state, please visit: http://scimath.unl.edu/NMSSI.