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Master of Education concentration in Mathematics
2007-2008 Curriculum
The Master of Education with a concentration in Mathematics is designed for students who are interested in furthering their knowledge of mathematics at the graduate level, without regard to employment as teachers, as well as for those who wish to meet state or district requirements for teacher licensure. The program leads to the Professional License (5-8 or 8-12).

Admission Requirements
1. The applicant must have earned a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
2. An overall undergraduate quality point average (qpa) of at least 2.7 on a 4.0 point scale or qpa of 2.8 for all courses completed in the last two years of the student’s full-time undergraduate program.
3. Mathematics preparation comparable to Framingham State College’s mathematics major including Calculus I, II, and III, Linear Algebra and Applications, Number Theory, and one (1) computer science course.
4. A Massachusetts Initial License in Mathematics. This requirement will be waived for persons who are not using this degree in order to obtain teacher licensure in the State of Massachusetts.
5. Submission of scores on the Miller Analogies Test or Graduate Record Examination.
Students whose academic background does not meet the requirements under item 2 above may still qualify for admission. In these cases students would be asked to make up course deficiencies as part of their graduate program in addition to the core and concentration courses.

Degree Requirements
The degree requires ten (10) courses, which include three (3) core courses, and seven (7) concentration courses. A comprehensive examination is required as the student’s culminating experience.
Education Core Courses (3)
14.991 Philosophy of Education and Teaching Practice
14.998 Language Development and Communication
14.999 Research and Evaluation (recommended after completion of three Content or Concentration courses)
Concentration Courses (7)
43.999 Reading and Research in Higher Mathematics
and
Six (6) additional courses approved in writing by the student’s advisor.
 
The student is expected to develop competencies in the following areas: analysis, algebra, geometry, discrete mathematics, and probability and statistics.
Coordinator and Advisor: Dr. Walter Czarnec, Mathematics

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