This course addresses a selection of topic areas usually taught at the secondary level – including but not limited to algebra, geometry, and probability and statistics – and looks at them from an advanced perspective illuminating their uses, interconnections and the mathematical theory or theories underlying them. This is a capstone content mathematics course helping to unify and enhance the prior college level mathematics courses the students in the program will already have taken as a prerequisite for entrance into the program. 

A continuation of MTHN 654.

This course introduces students to several important topics in the history of mathe­matics, such as: how mathematical discov­eries and developments that occur hundreds or even thousands of years apart can be connected in important ways; and how teachers of mathematics can use inci­dents and stories from the history of math­ematics to make their teaching more interesting and effective.