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Mathematics for Teaching, M.A.T.

This program provides an opportunity for secondary school teachers to broaden their background in mathematical science and connect this knowledge to current education practice.

Graduate Transfer Credit

The student should submit transfer credit requests at the time of admission to the program director in order to receive credit toward the M.A.T. degree for graduate-level work taken at other regionally accredited colleges and universities. The request must be in writing with an official transcript for each course they wish to transfer. All course credit requested for transfer must have received a grade of at least 3.0 (B).

A student admitted to the M.A.T. program who holds a previous master’s degree in education, a master’s degree in a field other than education but that includes coursework in education, or a teaching credential may request to transfer graduate level coursework to partially fulfill the M.A.T.’s twelve to fifteen required semester hours in education as follows.

  1. If the previous master’s degree or teaching credential included coursework completed within five years prior to admittance to the M.A.T. program, the student holding a
    • master’s degree in education may request to transfer up to 9 semester hours of transferrable graduate level education coursework;
    • master’s degree in a field other than education but that included education coursework may request to transfer up to 6 semester hours of transferrable graduate level education coursework;
    • teaching credential may request to transfer up to 6 semester hours of transferrable graduate level education coursework.
  2. If the previous master’s degree or teaching credential was completed more than five years prior to admittance and the student can document sufficient significant continuing education (e.g., professional development, in-service days, seminars, conferences, mini-courses) completed within the five years prior to admittance, the student holding a
    • master’s degree in education may request to transfer up to 9 semester hours of transferrable graduate level education coursework;
    • master’s degree in a field other than education but that included education coursework may request to transfer up to 6 semester hours of transferrable graduate level education coursework;
    • teaching credential may request to transfer up to 6 semester hours of transferrable graduate level education coursework.  

In all cases, what constitutes a sufficient amount of continuing education will be judged by the M.A.T. director and will normally be at least 100 hours of continuing education.