Program Description

The Masters Program in Mathematics Education leads to New York State certification for grades 7-12. Staffed by full time and part time educators with a wide range of classroom experience, scholarly publications and longtime involvement with professional associations, the program emphasizes content mastery in mathematics, a clear understanding of current instructional materials and pedagogical methods, and teaching methods that provoke critical thought and inquiry-based learning. Extensive school-based fieldwork is required prior to student teaching, both to familiarize students with urban educational environments and to enable them to develop classroom strategies that are innovative and appropriate for teaching today's students. The pivotal experience of the program is a semester of student teaching at the secondary and middle school levels, where M.A. students -- mentored by their cooperating teachers and NYU field supervisors -- are given responsibility for teaching in the New York City public schools.

Admission Requirements

All students admitted to the Masters program in Mathematics Education will have completed a bachelor's degree with a strong mathematics GPA. They must also have completed at least 30 credits of acceptable mathematics content including two semesters of Calculus. The applicant must also have taken and passed one semester at the college level of a foreign language or sign language.

In certain instances, the program will accept students who have not satisfied all of the above requirements. In these cases, such students will be required to complete at NYU all outstanding coursework, in addition to their program requirements, prior to their graduation from NYU.

I. Content Core (2 courses, 6 credits)

These courses would be taken, by advisement, from courses offered in our own program, or Basic or Educational Statistics, or from the Graduate School of Arts and Science.

II. General Pedagogical Core (5 courses, 16 credits)

E27.2010 Inquiries into Teaching and Learning III (4) (Includes 15 hours of field experience)
E27.2275 Language and Literacy Acquisition and Development (3) (Includes 15 hours of field experience)
E63.2272 Adolescent Development (3) (Includes 15 hours of field experience)
E75.2162 Educating Students with Disabilities in Middle Childhood and Adolescent Settings (3)
Plus, one course selected from Sociology of Education (E20.1015); History of Education (E55.2175); or
Philosophy of Education (E50.2013); or History of Mathematics (E12.2061) (3)

III. Pedagogical Content Knowledge Core (5 courses, 15 credits)

E12.2007 Curriculum and Assessment in Secondary Mathematics (3)
E12.2033 Teaching Mathematics in the Middle School (Methods I) (3)
(Includes 15 hours of field experience)
E12.2034 Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School (Methods II) (3)
(Includes 15 hours of field experience)
Plus two additional courses by advisement such as:
E12.2032 Teaching About Data and Chance in Grades 7-12 (3)
E12.2035 Teaching Algebra and Trigonometry in Grades 7-12 (3)
E12.2036 Teaching Geometry in Grades 7-12 (3)
E12.2037 Teaching Pre-Calculus (3)

IV. Student Teaching (2 courses, 6 credits)

E12.2077 Supervised Student Teaching I: Mathematics in the Middle School (3)
E12.2078 Supervised Student Teaching II: Mathematics in the Secondary School (3)

V. Terminal Experience (0 credits)

A special project or activity, developed in collaboration with the student's adviser, such as a paper focusing on some aspect of the mathematics curriculum or an internet project focusing on resources useful to a teacher of secondary mathematics.

VI. Other Requirements (0 credits)

E27.2999 Drug and Alcohol Education/Child Abuse Identification/School Violence: Social Responsibilities of Teachers(0))

Sample Program of Study