A Reconstruction of Area Unit of Elementary Mathematics Textbook Based on Freudenthal's Mathematisation Theory

Freudenthal의 수학화 이론에 근거한 제 7차 초등수학 교과서 5-가 단계 넓이 단원의 재구성

Freudenthal has advocated the mathematisation theory. Mathematisation is an activity which endow the reality with order, through organizing phenomena. According to mathematisation theory, the departure of children's learning of mathematics is not ready-made formal mathematics, but reality which contains mathematical germination. In the first place, children mathematise reality through informal method, secondly this resulting reality is mathematised by new tool. Through survey, it turns out that area unit of Korea's seventh elementary mathematics textbook is not correspond to mathematisation theory. In that textbook, the area formular is hastily presented without sufficient real context, and the relational understanding of area concept is overwhelmed by the practice of the area formular. In this thesis, first of all, I will reconstruct area unit of seventh elementary textbook according to Freudenthal's mathematisation theory. Next, I will perform teaching experiment which is ruled by new lesson design. Lastly, I analysed the effects of teaching experiment. Through this study, I obtained the following results and suggestions. First, the mathematisation was effective on the understanding of area concept. Secondly, in both experimental and comparative class, rich-insight children more successfully achieved than poor-insight ones in the task which asked testee comparison of area from a view of number of unit square. This result show the importance of insight in mathematics education. Thirdly, in the task which asked testee computing area of figures given on lattice, experimental class handled more diverse informal strategy than comparative class. Fourthly, both experimental and comparative class showed low achievement in the task which asked testee computing area of figures by the use of Cavalieri's principle. Fifthly, Experiment class successfully achieved in the area computing task which resulting value was fraction or decimal fraction. Presently, Korea's seventh elementary mathematics textbook is excluding the area computing task which resulting value is fraction or decimal fraction. By the aid of this research, I suggest that we might progressively consider the introduction that case. Sixthly, both experimental and comparative class easily understood the relation between area and perimeter of plane figures. This result show that area and perimeter concept are integratively lessoned.

Freudenthal은 수학화를 핵심 개념으로 하는 현실주의 수학 교육론을 주창하였다. 수학화란 현실 안에 있는 여러 현상들을 수학적인 수단을 사용하여 조직함으로써 현실에 질서를 부여하는 활동을 말한다. 본 연구에서는 Freudenthal의 수학화 이론을 바탕으로 제 7차 초등 수학 교과서 5-가 단계의 넓이 단원을 재구성하여 실험적인 지도만을 작성한 다음, 이를 통하여 교수 실험을 실시함으로써, 수학화를 통한 넓이의 지도 방안의 효과와 더불어 학생들의 넓이 개념과 공식에 대한 이해 실태를 분석하였다. 그 결과, 넓이의 개념 이해 측면에서는 실험반 학생들이 우수하였으나, 넓이의 계산 측면에서는 유의미한 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다.