Instructor-Guided Professional Learning
Mastering Math for the FTCE General Knowledge Exam
Mastering Math for the FTCE General Knowledge Exam prepares teacher candidates for the Mathematics subtest of the Florida Teacher Certification Examinations (FTCE) General Knowledge Test. The course follows the official FTCE test blueprint exactly: five lessons map onto the exam's four content competencies, each lesson teaches the underlying concepts with fully worked examples, and each lesson is paired with an auto-graded practice set written to match the style, rigor, and phrasing of real FTCE items — without reusing any question from an actual test form.
Why This Learning Experience?
This instructor-guided professional learning experience is designed to help educators learn on their schedule while still receiving meaningful support. Participants complete practical activities, connect ideas to real classroom practice, and build confidence through application-focused learning.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Compare and order real numbers and solve real-world problems using the four operations on rational numbers, applying order of operations correctly.
- Classify two- and three-dimensional geometric figures, solve ratio/proportion and scale problems, and choose and convert measurement units appropriately.
- Determine whether algebraic expressions are equivalent, translate real-world situations into expressions/equations/inequalities, and solve linear and quadratic equations, inequalities, and literal equations.
- Determine slope and intercepts, graph linear relationships, identify functions across representations, and compare functions given in different forms.
- Analyze data for measures of center and spread, identify misleading graphs and statistics, solve probability and counting problems, and evaluate the validity of survey and study conclusions.
Who Should Participate?
The course is designed for self-paced independent study but works equally well as the backbone of an instructor-led review session, a study-group curriculum, or a district-run test-prep cohort.
