California Baptist University
Foundational mathematics is CBU’s response to California’s urgent need for math teachers. With a degree in foundational mathematics (and a California single-subject teaching credential), students will be qualified to teach all math courses up to, but not including, calculus and AP statistics.
Foundational mathematics combines the classical study of mathematics with courses in education theory and methods. Those who enjoy logic puzzles, studying shapes, solving problems and learning how to be a caring and intuitive math teacher will find a perfect fit in CBU’s foundational mathematics program. Graduates will be exempt from the first two parts of the CSET in mathematics and will have completed the prerequisites for a teaching credential.
This course will include instruction in the following areas: critical thinking, sets, systems of numeration, number theory, the real number system, algebra, graphs, and functions.
This course will equip candidates to appraise the relationship between the theories and practices of human development and teaching/learning methods.
A study of the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times.
SLO 1: Students will have a solid foundation of mathematical processes at a level
comparable to that of students graduating with a B.S. in Mathematics at other universities.
Processes should include (but are not limited to) a proficiency in logic, problem
solving, and methods of proof.
SLO 2: Students will demonstrate their ability to apply mathematics in other fields
at an appropriate level and demonstrate their ability to apply knowledge acquired
from their major to real world models
SLO 3: Students will demonstrate mastery of abstract mathematical concepts and critical
reasoning.
SLO 4: Students will acquire up-to-date skills and/or applications of computer and
statistical programming related to future career choices.
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Forty-two years ago, God called me out of a comfortable job in research chemistry into a worldwide ministry in the mathematical sciences. God’s call drew me to travel, administrate and coordinate national and international teams of scientists and educators in academic institutions across the former Soviet Union, China, the Caribbean and even 40 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska.
We see the beauty that math can create in the world of fractal geometry, we see the order and structure in which the universe was created with physics, and the awe-inspiring beauty of music through calculus. All of this is but a glimpse into the mind of God. That is why I love mathematics. It is man’s way of seeking to understand the nature of created things.
Forty-two years ago, God called me out of a comfortable job in research chemistry into a worldwide ministry in the mathematical sciences. God’s call drew me to travel, administrate and coordinate national and international teams of scientists and educators in academic institutions across the former Soviet Union, China, the Caribbean and even 40 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska.
We see the beauty that math can create in the world of fractal geometry, we see the order and structure in which the universe was created with physics, and the awe-inspiring beauty of music through calculus. All of this is but a glimpse into the mind of God. That is why I love mathematics. It is man’s way of seeking to understand the nature of created things.
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