Mathematics Education
Cycle
Segundo ciclo
Degree
Mestre
Coordinator
Helena Cristina Oitavem Fonseca da Rocha
Opening date
September
Fees
1063,47 Euros/year or 7000,00 Euros/year (for foreign students).
Schedule
Daytime.
Education objectives
The objectives for this master is framed within the general competences, known as the Dublin Descriptors for a second cycle and specific aims of initial teacher training set out in paragraph 3 of art. 7 of Decree-Law No. 344/89, updated by the "Profiles of general competence to teach" published in Decree-Law No. 240/2001, of August 30, valuing the dimensions of professional and social ethics, the development teaching and learning, the school participation and relationship with the community, and professional development throughout life.
More specifically, it is intended as learning objectives:
More specifically, it is intended as learning objectives:
- The personal and social education of future teachers, encouraging the adoption of attitudes of reflection, autonomy, cooperation and participation, as well as internalisation of ethical values and ability perception principles;
- Complete their scientific, technological and technical mathematics;
- That the postgraduate students to acquire scientific training in the field pedagogical-didactic;
- The progressive development of teaching skills to integrate into the practice of teaching practice;
- That the postgraduate students develop skills and attitudes of critical analysis, innovation and educational research.
Access conditions
Admission Requirements:
- Holders of a degree of 1st cycle or legal equivalent cycle comprising 120 credits in the areas of Mathmatics or Statistics;
- Holders of a foreign academic degree conferred following a 1st cycle of studies organized in those areas, according to the principles of the Bologna Process by a State that has adhered to this Process;
- Holders of a foreign degree, in those areas that is recognized as meeting the objectives of a degree by the Scientific Council of Faculty of Science and Technology;
- Holders of an academic, scientific or professional, who is recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies by the Scientific Council of Faculty of Science and Technology.
- Evidence of oral and written command of the Portuguese language and the mastery of basic rules of logical and critical reasoning (Decree-Law 79/2014, Article 17, nº 1).
Degree pre-requisites
Duration: 2 years
Credits: 120 ECTS
Mandatory scientifc areas
| Scientific Area | Acronym | ECTS | |
| Mandatory | Optional | ||
| Teacher Training | FP | 54 | - |
| Mathematics | M | 21 | - |
| Mathematics and Teacher Training | M / FP | 45 | - |
| TOTAL | 120 | 0 | |
Access to other courses
Access to a 3rd cycle
Evaluation rules
The following modes of evaluation are used with regard to academic qualifications:
- Evaluation based solely on an examination or completion of a final project.
- Evaluation based on work done throughout the semester excluding examination or final project. In these courses students can expect to carry out, for example, laboratory activities, mini-tests, tests, individual or group projects, seminar-related activities, any combination of which will be used to determine the final grade.
- Evaluation based obligatorily on an examination or a final project. In these courses there extists a form of evaluation similar to one of the aformentioned activities in paragraph 2 as well as a form of evaluation based on a final exam.
- Evaluation based on work done throughout the semester with the possibility of foregoing an examination or a final project.
The final Dissertation (or Project) involves a public discussion with a Jury.
Structure
| 1.º Semester | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 11526 | Set Theory and Analysis in Mathematics Education | 6.0 |
| 10787 | New Technologies in Mathematics Teaching | 6.0 |
| 11527 | Pedagogy and Didactics of Mathematics I | 6.0 |
| 11525 | Probability and Statistics in Mathematics Education | 6.0 |
| 10786 | Sociology of Education | 6.0 |
| 2.º Semester | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 11532 | Geometry A | 6.0 |
| 11529 | Introduction to Professional Practice | 3.0 |
| 10790 | Modelling and Applications in Mathematics Teaching | 6.0 |
| 11528 | Pedagogy and Didactics of Mathematics II | 6.0 |
| 10789 | Educational Psychology | 6.0 |
| 8503 | Topics in Discrete Mathematics | 3.0 |
| 2.º Year | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 11649 | Pedagogical Training | 45.0 |
| 3.º Semester | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 11530 | Assessment in Mathematics | 3.0 |
| 10792 | History and Philosophy of Mathematics | 3.0 |
| 11647 | Research in Mathematical Education | 3.0 |
| 4.º Semester | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 11648 | School Organization and Ethics of the Teaching Profession | 3.0 |
| 10996 | Contemporary Thought | 3.0 |