PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES IN MATHEMATICS:  Nature of mathematics, logical thinking, understanding children’s thinking and reasoning, language of mathematics, community mathematics, place of mathematics in curriculum, aims and objectives of learning mathematics in primary classes, values of mathematics learning, correlation with other subjects, lower primary and upper primary mathematics curriculum.  Mathematics, trends and developments, historical development of mathematics, history of great mathematicians and their contributions.  Approach to mathematics learning, proper learning experiences keeping in mind the characteristics of children, natural learning capacity and the learning process of the child, theoretical base of learning mathematics.  Problem of teaching, different teaching learning methods, inductive and deductive mentods, analytic and synthetic method, project method, laboratory method, planning of a lesson,  Learning materials in mathematics, textbook and handbooks, mathematics collection, collection of mathematical puzzles, riddles, etc.  Mathematics learning evaluation: Concept of continuous and comprehensive evaluation, evaluation activities, grading the performance and recording the results, diagnosis, remedial teaching and error analysis.