Aim High With Your Advanced Skills
Analytical and quantitative skills are needed by a range of employers, and this need continues to grow. They know that critical thinking is an essential ingredient to their business success. Improve your value to employers by deepening your mathematics knowledge and leadership acumen. Another path you can choose is to solidify your background and prepare for a doctoral program.
The Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences offers a graduate program in mathematics for those who are currently teaching and want to increase their rank on the pay scale and responsibility in elementary and secondary schools.
MEd in Mathematics Education
This unique, online program is designed for teachers, with classes that enable you to hold your job while you earn your master's. You have two specializations from which to choose: A Secondary Mathematics Education specialization, and an Elementary and Middle Level Mathematics Education specialization. Whether you are interested in furthering your knowledge, working towards permanent certification, becoming a teacher-leader, or planning to pursue a doctoral degree, the program prepares you to embrace the challenges of teaching mathematics to a diverse population of students in an ever-changing world.
For teachers in public schools, the program meets the credit requirements for Instructional Level II certification. However, it does not provide initial certification or certification at other levels.
The IUP Difference
IUP Faculty. Your courses are taught by engaging professors who bring a broad range of real-world experience to the classroom.
Graduate tutors. Assistantship positions are available to allow you to practice your teaching skills. Our mathematics graduate students offer tutoring for 100- and 200-level math courses.