메타문제의 적용이 초등학생의 수학 학습에 미치는 효과

The Effects of Application of Meta-problems on Elementary School Students' Mathematical learning

수학교육에서 문제 해결을 위한 노력은 끊임없이 계속되고 있다. 그러나 그동안 수학 문제 해결에서 발견술만이 지나치게 강조되었다는 지적이 제기되었고 여러 학자들이 메타인지적 능력을 향상시키는 것이 중요함을 강조하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 메타인지적 문제 해결력을 향상시키고 수학 수업에서 문제 해결 교육을 자연스럽게 할 수 있는 방안으로 개발된 메타문제를 초등학교 수학 수업에 적용해 봄으로써 메타문제를 중심으로 한 수업이 학생들의 수학 학업 성취도에 있어서 어떤 효과를 가져오며, 수학적 신념 및 태도에는 어떤 영향을 미치는지 알아 보고자한다.

The goal of this thesis was to examine the effects of applying meta-problems to elementary school mathematics class In their achievements, beliefs and attitudes. To achieve this goal the following research questions were asked. a. What effects does the class applied with meta-problem have on students' mathematical achievements? b. What effects does the class applied with meta-problem have on students' mathematical beliefs and attitudes? To answer questions, an experimental study was designed and conducted. The subjects were 6th-grade students at S Elementary School located in Dobong-Gu, Seoul where the researcher teaches. Among them, the class that the researcher teach was chosen as the experimental group. During the experimental study, a teaching-learning with meta-problems was applied to the experimental group and a teaching-learning with general problems was applied to the comparative group. To examine changes in the mathematical achievements of the experimental group and the comparative group, a post-test of mathematical achievements was conducted and the results were t-tested. As well, to find answers to the second research question, a pre-test and a post-test of mathematical beliefs and attitudes were conducted on the experimental group and the results were t-tested. The results of this study were as follows First, the experimental group which was taught applying meta-problems got higher mathematical achievement than the comparative group. Second, the class with meta-problems did not bring significant changes in students' mathematical beliefs and attitudes. Synthesizing the study results above, a teaching-learning with meta-problems is a teaching-learning method that can accommodate problem solving naturally in school mathematics and give a positive effect on students' mathematical achievements.