B.S. in Mathematics with Secondary Education Certification

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Program Distinctives

• Rigorous education from a Christ-centered perspective.
• Personal access to highly accomplished Christian faculty in mathematics and education, who serve as guides and mentors in and out of the classroom.
• Experience tight-knit community — enjoy regular collaboration with peers and faculty mentors in the active math department suite.
• Student teaching experience during spring or fall semester of your senior year, with mentoring from a faculty advisor and professional partners in the field, as well as opportunities to work as a teaching assistant or lab technician on campus.
• Education Career Services (ECS) offering exceptional career development and networking opportunities for you as both a student and alumnus of Grove City College. The ECS fosters relationships with private, public, charter, and international schools, as well as other education employers.
• Licensure assistance through our highly developed certification services, through which we help students and alumni fulfill state certification requirements, meet testing requirements, and pursue additional certifications as desired.
• Educational leadership opportunities through national and international partners in areas such as urban education, gifted education, youth theater programs, and ESL programs.
• Opportunities to attend education conferences and events such as Ed Camp and various high school outreach programs.
• Access to the Hamilton Buhl Curriculum Library on campus, which has a wealth of resources including school curricular materials, adolescent and young adult literacy materials, and educational technology tools.
• Extensive mathematics research opportunities through our in-house SOAR program and REUs across the country.
• Vocation-enriching humanities core classes woven into your academic schedule that will cultivate greater empathy, critical thinking, writing and other communication skills, and a well-rounded understanding of the world and your place in it.
• Major-related student groups on campus including our award-winning chapter of Kappa Delta Pi (an international education honorary), as well as the Secondary Education Society, Council for Exceptional Children, and our chapter of the national mathematics honorary, Kappa Mu Epsilon.

Career Opportunities & Outcomes

• Career paths: With an education degree from Grove City College, you will be thoroughly equipped to work in a wide variety of school settings — from public to private, domestic to international — or with global education organizations and other companies and nonprofits in related fields.
  • Our education majors become certified and licensed teachers around the country and all over the world, typically recruited well ahead of graduation.
  • Our graduates pursue ongoing professional development throughout their careers via graduate-level education.
• If you are like 96% of Grove City College graduates, you will be prepared to compete for top teaching positions and launch into your career or graduate school within six months of graduation.
• Wherever you feel called to teach, you will be prepared to make an impact in the classroom as a skilled mathematician and caring mentor.

Program Specifics

• 89-91 major credit hours of rigorous coursework to build your foundation in pure and applied mathematics and equip you to teach at the secondary level. For detailed course descriptions, refer to the College Catalog. If you are interested in teaching math and complementary subjects at the middle school level, explore our options in middle level education.
  • Mathematics major course requirements include Calculus II, Combinatorics or Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science, Linear Algebra, Mathematics for Secondary Education, Calculus III, College Geometry, Theory of Statistics I, Abstract Algebra, Classical Analysis, and Seminar in Mathematics.
    • Students who have not taken calculus in high school may begin with Calculus I and still be on track to graduate in four years.
  • Math electives include options in Financial Mathematics, Differential Equations, Theory of Statistics II, Complex Variables, Number Theory, Intermediate Analysis, and Topology.
  • Major-related requirements include General Physics I or College Physics I and II, as well as Computer Programming I.
  • Professional education requirements include the following and incorporate practical field experience: Introduction to the Teaching Profession, Technologies of Instruction, Educational Psychology, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, and Methods of Secondary Special Education Implementation, among other courses.
    • In both middle and high school settings, you will learn about classroom management, student motivation, best practices in pedagogy and assessment, and inclusive teaching strategies.

Student & Alumni Stories

Nathan Jones '24
B.S. in Mathematics Secondary Education

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