Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics and Education)

The BA in Mathematics and Education is a four-year, fulltime honours degree programme which incorporates a teacher training qualification and opportunities for practical teaching experience throughout the four years of its duration. Graduates of the programme will be qualified mathematicians and will be recognised by the Teaching Council of Ireland as qualified postprimary teachers of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. The programme is jointly run by the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics and the School of Education of NUI Galway. It has been created as a response to the growing need for excellent Mathematics teachers in Irish post-primary schools as well as a general need for qualified mathematicians.

Year 1

• History and Structure of Irish Education
• Principles of Second-Level Mathematics
• Introduction to Educational Sciences
• Practical Teaching Programme
• Algebra and Analysis I and II
• Skills of Applied Mathematics

Year 2

• Philosophical Foundations of Education
• Mathematics Methodology and Skills of Teaching
• Practical Teaching Programme
• Applied Mathematics: Mechanics I
• Analysis I
• Probability
• Linear Algebra
• Geometry
• Statistics

Year 3

• Curriculum and Assessment
• Practical Teaching Programme
• Professional Studies: Integrated Project
• Psychology, Sociology and Catering for Diversity
• Research Literacies for Professional Development & Lifelong Learning
• Applied Mathematics: Mathematical Modelling I
• Group Theory
• Discrete Mathematics
• Applied Mathematics: Mechanics II
• Complex Analysis
• One Mathematics Elective

 

Year 4

• Practical Teaching Programme
• Final-Year Symposium
• Final Year Project in Mathematics
• Applied Mathematics: Non-linear Systems
• Further Options: Three Mathematics Electives
• Electives: Topology; Advanced Statistical Methods for Business; Functional Analysis; Field Theory; Cryptography; Groups II; History of Mathematics; Numerical Analysis II; Mathematical Modeling II