Master in Math Education in kindergarten and Elementary School

Goals

  • Develop capacity to work collaboratively to solve problems encountered in different contexts;
  • Develop skills to critically evaluate educational investigation and to develop autonomously investigation in mathematics education;
  • Mobilizing knowledge, skills and attitudes to the construction of new scientific knowledge, teaching and curricular in problem solving in the field of mathematics education in the first years;
  • Develop methodologies for custom work, learning and Investigation in the themes being studied;
  • Deepen the knowledge on the epistemology of mathematics, its history and philosophy;
  • Plan and develop theoretical and empirical Investigation using different methodological perspectives in the paradigms and designs of Investigation;
  • Reflect on their teaching making perspectives according to the current paradigms of teaching mathematics.

Curricular plan

Curricular Unit Period ECTS Duration
Desenvolvimento Curricular e Avaliação em MatemáticaS181º Ano
Educação MatemáticaS171º Ano
Metodologia de Investigação em EducaçãoS171º Ano
Transdisciplinaridade e MatemáticaS181º Ano
Geometria e MedidaS2101º Ano
Números e ÁlgebraS2101º Ano
Organização e Tratamento de DadosS2101º Ano
Curricular Unit Period ECTS Duration
ProjectA50
SeminárioS1101º Ano

Conditions of admission

Entry Requirements
- a) Professional teachers with qualification for teaching in preschool or in the 1st cycle of basic education
-Holders of foreign academic degree of a 1st study cycle organized according the principles of the Bologna Process offered by a State that has adhered to this Process, in the area mentioned in paragraph a)
-Holders of foreign academic degree recognized by the scientific body of the establishment of higher education as an undergraduate degree, as long as it is in the area mentioned in paragraph a)
-Holders of an educational, scientific or professional curriculum, recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies by competent scientific body of the establishment of higher education (subparagraph d)) of paragraph 1 of article 17 of the Dec. Law 74/2006, of 24 March, with changes introduced in subsequent normative.

More information

Regulamento Geral da Formação Graduada e Pós-Graduada no IPL e Regimes Aplicáveis a Estudantes em Situações Especiais
Plano de Estudos (Declaração de Retificação n.º 1190/2012, D.R. n.º 182, 2.ª série de 19 de setembro)

Observations:
The study cycle will have duration of 4 semesters and has been structured in the following manner:
The 1st semester comprises 4 curricular units, for a total of 30 credits;
The 2nd semester has a total of 3 curricular units and 30 credits;
In the 3rd semester, the students attend the curricular unit “Seminar” and start and carry out their Professional
Use Project, for a total of 30 credits;
The 4th semester will be the conclusion of the Professional Use Project, which also will amount to 30 credits.


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