Students and Teachers′Perceptions on the Goals of Mathematics Education -A Foundational Research for the Development of Mathematics Curriculum Model for a Creative Knowledge-based Society-

창조적 지식기만사회의 수학교육과정 개발을 위한 기초조사연구 -수학교육목표에 대한 교사.학생의 인식-

This study is to investigate what students want to learn and what mathematics teachers should teach in their classrooms. 1314 students and 527 mathematics teachers were randomly selected to administer the questionnaire. The result shows that their is a considerable mismatch between students'learning desires and teachers'teaching practices in classrooms. What students want to learn is creative knowledge; however, what they learn in the classroom is ‘imitative’ knowledge. This study suggests that the overall educational goal of mathematics education in Korea should emphasize (1) learning to communicate mathematically, (2) loaming to reason mathematically, (3) becoming confident in pupils'own ability, (4) learning to$.$value mathematics, and (5) becoming mathematical problem solvers.