Math for Teachers, Minor

Faculty Advisors

Multiple Subject (elementary) Undergraduate Advisor

• Ben Ford (email ben.ford@sonoma.edu for appointment)

Single Subject concentration and Foundational Level credential (secondary) Undergraduate Advisors

• Martha H. Byrne (email byrnema@sonoma.edu for appointment)
• Ben Ford (email ben.ford@sonoma.edu for appointment)

Program Information

This program provides the mathematical background to teach effectively at the elementary and middle school levels. Twenty-three units are required. For more information, please consult Math for Teachers, Minor in the Catalog. 

These must include

• MATH 300A - Elementary Number Systems Unit(s): 3
• MATH 103 - Ethnomathematics Unit(s): 3 OR
• MATH 150 - Modern Geometry Unit(s): 3
• MATH 142 - Discrete Structures I Unit(s): 3 OR
• MATH 200 - Discrete Mathematics Unit(s): 3 OR
• MATH 220 - Reasoning and Proof Unit(s): 4
• MATH 160 - Precalculus Mathematics Unit(s): 4 OR
• MATH 161 - Differential and Integral Calculus I Unit(s): 4
• MATH 250 - Probability and Statistics for Future Teachers Unit(s): 2 OR
• MATH 300B - Data, Chance, and Algebra Unit(s): 3

Two courses chosen from

• MATH 306 - Number Theory Unit(s): 4
• MATH 310 - History of Mathematics Unit(s): 4
• MATH 316 - Graph Theory and Combinatorics Unit(s): 4
• MATH 470 - Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Unit(s): 4
• Students pursuing this minor are also strongly advised to take MATH 390.