UC San Diego Math Project Summer 2025 Institutes, Programs & Academies

Register for any of the following three courses:

• Expanding Secondary Math Teachers Knowledge Base: A Summer Institute
• Introducing Python and Discrete Mathematics: A Summer Program
• Discrete Math Pre-Collegiate Teacher Summer Institute

***Please see the description, unit amount, and price for each course below***

Expanding Secondary Math Teachers Knowledge Base: A Summer Institute

3 units, $375

Secondary school math teachers set a foundation that creates opportunities for students’ educational and career choices. Quantitative reasoning is essential for success in math and science. This course approaches teachers’ understanding of the development of quantitative reasoning in secondary students through a variety of contexts including: reasoning about inequalities, fractions, ratios, and algebraic expressions. The course also advances teachers’ content and pedagogical knowledge of functions.

Introducing Python and Discrete Mathematics: A Summer Program

3 units, $375

Introducing Python and Discrete Mathematics will introduce computing into the high school mathematics classroom through a Summer professional development program for teachers. Participants will explore topics in Discrete Mathematics (including: (1) Two-player impartial combinatorial games [Games],(2) Iteration and Recursion and (3) Elementary Combinatorics [Counting]) along with activities that require learning the Python programming language and the use of Jupyter notebooks. The course will address/advance participants’ mathematical and computational content knowledge and ways of thinking along with knowledge of pedagogy. By the end of the course, teachers will prepare and describe a first draft of a project (intended for high school students) to their fellow participants.

Discrete Math Pre-Collegiate Teacher Summer Institute

2 units, $250

Discrete Mathematics Pre-Collegiate (DMPC) Teacher Summer Institute is professional development course introducing high school mathematics teachers to DMPC, a University of California Office of the President (UCoP) A-G fourth-year mathematics course for high school students. The course content addresses teacher-participants’ knowledge of Discrete Math (DM) topics, pedagogical content knowledge and understanding of student difficulties for selected topics.

Registration deadline: December 5, 2025