A Study on the Approaching to School Algebra

학교 대수 도입과 관련된 논의

The purpose of this study is to investigate various perspectives on the approaching to school algebra. School algebra plays an important role in school mathematics, but many students have been in difficulties for the loaming of school algebra. This problem has been continued for the long time. This paper supposed that this problem may be caused by the approaching stage to the school algebra. In order to investigate this problem, we first described the definition of algebra in chapterII. And in chapterIII, we divided the perspectives of approaching to the school algebra into the two parts. The one is the intrinsic nature of algebra, i.e. generalization, abstraction, and structural aspects. The other is the extrinsic representation of algebra, i.e. problem solving, modelling, functions. Each perspectives are investigated through various research studies. We hope that this works on each perspectives help a teacher prepare school algebra.