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This course focuses on the theory and practice of mathematics teaching to produce effective, responsible and dedicated mathematics teachers. Students will be introduced to the aims, fundamentals and theories of mathematics education, curriculum, as well as planning of mathematics teaching and learning in secondary schools that emphasize higher order thinking skills. The history of the development of important mathematical concepts as well as the effective teaching and learning strategies will be discussed. This course emphasizes mathematical contents and pedagogy that is students will be taught to master the mathematical contents and employ the appropriate pedagogy to teach the contents. Students are encouraged to deepen their understanding of mathematical concepts and skills through problem solving according to the fundamental topics of mathematics, namely number and operations, measurement and geometry, relationship and algebra, statistics and probability, and discrete mathematics.