2024

Numbers and Operations

Name: Numbers and Operations
Code: MAT01645L
5 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/130 hours
Scientific Area: Mathematics

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Acquisition and consolidation of a zest for discovery, innovation in teaching mathematics and mathematics. Acquisition of basic cultural skills for teaching diverse elementary mathematical domains (concepts and basic arithmetic operations, logic and algebra of sets) and their relationship.

Contents

1. Problems solving: procedures and strategies.
2. Positive integers as collections of finite cardinal. Operations with sets. Cardinal operations in natural numbers and their properties. Order.
3. Integers. Mental calculation. Algorithms of operations. Counting principles, and combinatorial enumeration.
4. Fractions and operations with fractions. Decimal representation. Ratios and proportions.
5. The mathematical language. Nominations conditions and propositions. Logical operations and their interpretation. Validity and consequence. Principles and rules of logic remarkable

Teaching Methods

Exposure to exemplification of interaction activities between theory and practice, monitoring of individual and group work done by students

Exams and discussion of individual and group

Teaching Staff