MATH 361 Numbers and Operations Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 131, STAT 208 or STAT 210 with a minimum grade of C. Pre- or corequisite: TEDU 101. Enrollment is restricted to students majoring in programs to prepare early childhood and elementary teachers (B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education and Teaching and B.S.Ed. in Early Childhood Education and Teaching). Ways of representing numbers, relationships between numbers, number systems, the meanings of operations and how they relate to one another, and computation within the number systems as a foundation for algebra. The course includes structured observations of elementary-level students.