This course will deepen mathematics didactic knowledge based on didactic research and practice-based knowledge. The course intends to develop basic knowledge and practice about the development of students' mathematical abilities and how one follows up the students' learning process. Content that is brought up:
· Principles of school mathematics
· Efficient teaching and learning in mathematics in the classroom
· Reflective teaching and teaching strategies,
· Curriculum design in mathematics
· Mathematical abilities in the curriculum and in didactic research
· Students with special needs and students with special abilities that need additional challenges
· Common misconceptions regarding mathematics among pupils in school year 7-9
· Didactic focus on analysis in a variable, vector algebra and discrete mathematics.
· The affective, cognitive and psycho-motoric domains of the learning
· Formative and summative assessment and grading
· Design of tests and the validity and reliability of test assignments
· Swedish pupils' results in international knowledge measurements
· Didactic focus on selected fields in mathematics subject of the Swedish primary and lower-secondary school.