From: Walter Seaman walter-seaman@uiowa.edu

To: Mathematics faculty

1. The mathematics faculty supports the creation of the new three-hour math course 22M:006 Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers as proposed in the attached document. It is the understanding of the mathematics faculty that this course will be a requirement of all Elementary Education majors who do not have a math specialization. And it will be open to other students interested in the course who have the necessary mathematics prerequisites.

2. The mathematics faculty supports and endorses the assignment of QFR credit to this new mathematics course 22M:006 Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers.

3. The mathematics faculty supports the creation of the new three-hour math course 22M:012 Theory of Arithmetic as proposed in the attached document as a replacement for 22M:004 Theory of Arithmetic.  22M:012 will be part of the degree requirement courses for the Elementary Education majors with a math specialty. The mathematics faculty supports and endorses the assignment of QFR credit to this new math course 22M:012 Theory of Arithmetic.

These proposals were unanimously approved by the Department of Mathematics faculty on April 15, 2003.

NOTE: The UGC voted ‘yes’, that is, in support of the motions described, in the three questions posed above on 2/24/03.