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Certificate in Teaching Basic Mathematics

2009-2010 Catalog Description
Certificates may be earned by regularly matriculated or extended education students and denote successful completion of a prescribed program of study designed (a) to impart specified professional/vocational/career competencies; or (b) to produce mastery of the content of a sub-field of an academic major (discipline); or (c) to provide exposure to the range of materials in a traditional or emerging interdisciplinary field. Refer to Page 59 of the 2009-2010 Catalog for additional certificate information.

Certificate in Teaching Basic Mathematics

Admission to the Program

  1. A valid California teaching credential in a subject other than mathematics.

Certificate Requirements (32 units)

Lower-division requirements (20 units)
  1. Math 110. College Algebra (4)
  2. Math 115. The Ideas of Mathematics (4)
  3. Math 120. Pre-Calculus Mathematics (4)
  4. Math 229. Geometry in Two and Three Dimensions (4)
  5. Four units chosen from:
Upper-division requirements (12 units)
  1. Math 301A. Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics for Educators A: Fundamentals of Arithmetic and Geometry (4)
  2. Math 302. Problem Solving in Mathematics (4)
  3. Math 499. Teaching Mathematics (4)
    Note: With departmental permission mathematics courses with a calculus prerequisite may be substituted for any of the following: