Number Sense for Primary Education with PhET Simulations

PhET Interactive Simulations (https://phet.colorado.edu/), a project of the University of Colorado Boulder, provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations for use across, primary, secondary, and higher education levels. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. All simulations are open source and free to all students and teachers. In this course, you will (a) acquire teaching and facilitation strategies for how to use PhET simulations in a K-2 classroom, (b) explore how PhET simulations can support multilingual students, and (c) engage with lessons supporting students’ learning of counting, number sense, and place value. To finish this course, you need to complete one assignment with peer review: complete one early math teacher guide (using a template) to plan a lesson on numeracy using one of the PhET simulations introduced in this course

• Develop familiarity with number sense using PhET simulations
• Apply teaching strategies like number talks and storytelling
• Support multilingual learners in math discourse equitably

• Basic computer and internet skills
• Ability to read instructions and complete short exercises