Current Course Schedule

Early Number, Addition and Subtraction

How do children develop computational strategies to help them add and subtract? This course explores how children make sense of these operations. Through video clips and student work samples, we’ll examine effective, efficient, and accurate problem-solving strategies that children can use to master addition and subtraction. We’ll discuss the role of the standard algorithm in a standards-based mathematics classroom and consider the teacher’s role in helping children develop computational fluency. In addition, you’ll examine mathematical ideas central to addition and subtraction, thereby deepening your own mathematical content knowledge.

Term(s) offered: Summer
Format: online*  Additional asynchronous work required
  • Course Number
    TEED650N
  • Focus On
    Grades K - 4
  • Category
    Childhood / Elementary School, Credit-bearing Courses, Online
  • Registration Options and Cost
    $425 12.0 CTLE or 1.2 CEU
    $1,868 1.0 Credits
    $50 Materials fee

Sections

Summer 2 2025

  • Section 1:
    Date(s)
    July 7 and 9 | Online*
    Day and Time
    Monday and Wednesday, 9:30 to 4:00 PM ET with additional asynchronous work
    Registration Deadline
    Jun 30, 2025
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    • Eliza Chung
      Eliza Chung
      Eliza Chung, MA, is a Math Tutor at West Creek Elementary school with 20 years of experience teaching young children.
       
      For most of her career, she taught at The School at Columbia, where her focus has been on creating contexts for developing young readers, writers, mathematicians, and learners within a community while using constructivist approaches within an integrated curriculum. She has taught math pedagogy at the graduate level since 2008 at City College of New York and through the Bank Street Continuing Professional Studies department.

      In 2016, she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Ms. Chung was a founding member of the East Harlem Village Academy Charter School and was a student-teacher at the Manhattan School for Children (P.S. 333) and at P.S. 36. She received an MA in Cognitive Studies of Educational Practice at Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY; and a BS in Psychology and Education at Barnard College, Columbia University, NY, NY.
"Amazing class with skills that I can apply once we are back at school. Eliza created an open environment where listening, practicing and sharing were encouraged regardless of one's teacher experience level"

I took away "Ideas for engaging lessons and great resources to support any math curriculum. Very clear and practical takeaways for application in k-3 classrooms - much appreciated!"

 I learned "lots of games to support number and additional ideas about pedagogy of math instruction."

"I came away with a better understanding of how to further develop numbers sense and use tools to visually represent numbers and combinations of numbers."