The curriculum in the Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Teaching Emphasis affords students to undertake a traditional liberal arts education in mathematics while pursuing requirements for teaching certification.
Students in this program investigate a broad array of techniques in mathematics and pursue electives in related fields that demonstrate how mathematics is fundamental to the world at large.
The main goal for the Teaching Emphasis is to prepare students to teach at the high school level, and the degree includes coursework towards teaching certification as well as a semester of clinical teaching. Students are expected to participate in the AggieTEACH program and enroll in the Secondary Education (SEED) minor. A student will typically seek admission to the AggieTEACH program after completing their first year.
Plan of Study Grid | First Year |
|---|
| Fall |
|---|
ENGL 104
| Composition and Rhetoric
or Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition | 3 |
| MATH 171 | Calculus I | 4 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3,4 | 1 |
| | Semester Credit Hours | 15 |
| Spring |
|---|
| ARSC 201 | Perspectives on Secondary Teaching | 1 |
| MATH 172 | Calculus II | 4 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 3 |
| Public Speaking | |
| Communication for Technical Professions | |
| Argumentation and Debate | |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3,4 | 1 |
| | Semester Credit Hours | 16 |
| Second Year |
|---|
| Fall |
|---|
| MATH 221 | Several Variable Calculus | 4 |
| MATH 300 | Foundations of Mathematics | 3 |
| STAT 211 | Principles of Statistics I | 3 |
| 4 |
| Programming I | |
| Introduction to Computer Science Concepts and Programming | |
| Structured Programming in C | |
| 3,4 | 2 |
| | Semester Credit Hours | 16 |
| Spring |
|---|
| INST 222 | Foundations of Education - Community, Values and Civics | 3 |
| MATH 308 | Differential Equations | 3 |
| MATH 323 | Linear Algebra | 3 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 3 |
| | Semester Credit Hours | 15 |
| Third Year |
|---|
| Fall |
|---|
| MATH 409 | Analysis on the Real Line | 3 |
PHYS 206
& PHYS 226 | Newtonian Mechanics for Engineering and Science
and Physics of Motion Laboratory for the Sciences | 4 |
| TEFB 322 | Teaching and Schooling in Modern Society | 3 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 5,6 | 3 |
| | Semester Credit Hours | 16 |
| Spring |
|---|
MATH 415
| Modern Algebra I
or Applied Algebra | 3 |
| MATH 467 | Modern Geometry | 3 |
RDNG 372
| Reading and Writing across the Middle Grades Curriculum
or Reading in the Middle and Secondary Grades | 3 |
| TEFB 324 | Teaching Skills II | 3 |
| 4 | 3 |
| | Semester Credit Hours | 15 |
| Fourth Year |
|---|
| Fall |
|---|
| INST 210 | Understanding Special Populations | 3 |
| MATH 403 | Mathematics and Technology | 3 |
| TEFB 407 | Mathematics in the Middle and Senior School | 3 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 5,6 | 3 |
| | Semester Credit Hours | 15 |
| Spring |
|---|
| TEED 425 | Supervised Clinical Teaching | 12 |
| | Semester Credit Hours | 12 |
| | Total Semester Credit Hours | 120 |
Maximum of 3 hours of MATH 300 or CSCE 222/ECEN 222 may be used in this degree program.
Maximum of 3 hours of MATH 411 or STAT 414 may be used in this degree program.
Maximum of 4 hours of MATH 417, MATH 437, or CSCE 442 may be used in this degree program.
If a grade of D or F is earned in any of the following courses, MATH 151/MATH 171, MATH 152/MATH 172, MATH 221/MATH 251/MATH 253, MATH 300, MATH 323 or MATH 308, this course must be immediately retaken and a grade of C or better earned. The department will allow at most two Ds in upper-level (MATH 325-499) courses. If a third D is earned, one of the three courses in which a D was earned must be retaken and a grade of C or better earned.
Graduation requirements include a requirement for 3 hours of International and Cultural Diversity courses and 3 hours of Cultural Discourse courses. A course satisfying a Core category, a college/department requirement, or a general elective can be used to satisfy this requirement. See academic advisor.
This degree requires that a student be admitted into the AggieTEACH program and complete the Secondary Education (SEED) minor. Courses for the SEED minor have already been incorporated in the planned coursework above.
