Degree: Graduate Certificate
Classroom Type: On campus
Advance your career to support pre-K through 12th grade students’ mathematics learning.
July 31, 2025
Interest Categories: Education & Counseling
Campus: Off campus
Develop powerful math learning environments and curriculum to support your pre-K through 12th grade students. Cherry Creek School District and University of Colorado Denver’s new graduate certificate in Mathematics Learning and Teaching is designed for general and special education teachers. It provides you with an opportunity to grow your knowledge of how people construct math knowledge from birth through high school.
Each course is organized to include teachers at all Pre-K-12 school grade levels, including general and special education teachers. Each stand-alone course is worth 3 graduate-level semester credits and may be applied towards the certificate or a master’s degree in the School of Education & Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver.
Dr. Amber Gardner
On location at Cherry Creek School District
$350 per credit*; $1050* per course; $3276* per certificate (a significant savings over regular tuition)
*Includes FeesCourse Details
Educators’ learning will focus on quantities and operations in place-value number systems, how students understand such systems beginning at birth, and how teaching may promote students’ progress.
Course Details
Educators’ learning will focus on quantities and operations involved with ratio, fraction, and proportion; and on how students understand ratio, fraction and proportion; and how teaching may promote students’ progress.
Course Details
Educators’ learning will focus on conceptions of society’s role in determining what counts as mathematics to be taught and learned. Increases abilities to address issues of privilege and oppression that impact students’ opportunities.
Recommended Completion Time:1 year
Required Credits for Completion:9
Please contact Beth Eagen at beth.eagen@ucdenver.edu or call 303-315-5000 for application assistance or to learn more about this program.