This course focuses on child and adolescent development with emphasis on current research and theory on biological, linguistic, cognitive, social, and emotional dimensions of development of the learners and shall include appropriate pedagogical principles applicable for each developmental level.
The course builds upon the students’ knowledge on properties of the real number system, operations on different types of algebraic expressions, and the solution of various types of equations and inequalities. The course also covers the pre-requisites to trigonometry and calculus, specifically transcendental and non-transcendental functions, including the characteristics of their graphs and applications.
The course presents the humanistic aspects of mathematics which provides the historical context and timeline that led to the present understanding and application of the different branches of mathematics