Middle-Grade Mathematics

Elementary Education 

Any elementary teacher candidate applying for an initial Illinois Professional Educator license and seeking a subsequent middle-grade mathematics endorsement to be added to the license will need to

• complete 18 semester hours of approved mathematics-related coursework including the 2-credit course MATH 325 Methods of Teaching Middle-Grade Mathematics. (Wheaton elementary education majors will automatically have completed 8 credits toward the endorsement by completing required courses MATH 125 and EDUC 315)
• pass the state’s middle-level mathematics content exam. This is in addition to passing the elementary content exam
• complete a Wheaton-approved practicum in a middle school

Any mathematics course counted toward the middle-grade endorsement must have a final grade of C- or higher.

Secondary Education

Secondary Education students who are also mathematics majors will automatically receive the middle-grade mathematics endorsement as part of their program; however, they will need to pass the state’s middle-level mathematics content exam.

 

Additional Course Options (8 hrs)

Select hours from the following areas:

• MATH 263 Introduction to Statistics (4 hrs., if not taken as CatC’s AAQR tag)**
• Calculus (MATH 231- 4 hrs.; MATH 232-4 hrs.); [Math 233, 234 if granted as AP Credit]**
• Modern Algebra or Number Theory or Linear Algebra
• Geometry (MATH 362- 4 hrs)**
• Discrete Mathematics (MATH 243- 4 hrs.)**
• MATH 301 Introduction to Upper-Level Mathematics
• MATH 333 Differential Equations
  ** Recommended, due to middle-grade math content

Practica Options

• Students who already know by sophomore year that they are majoring in Mathematics and Secondary Education or are getting the Middle-School Mathematics Endorsement should be placed in a middle- school for their 225L practicum.
• If not placed in a middle-school for 225L, students have the option of taking the Middle-Grade Practicum 405L/507L or of student teaching in a middle-school to fulfill the requirements of the middle grade endorsement.