The Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육)

Korean Society of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회)
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A Study on the Design and Implementation of Mathematics and Science Integrated Instruction

수학과학통합교육의 설계 및 실행에 대한 연구

  • Lee, Hei-Sook (Department of Mathematics, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Rim, Hae-Mee (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Moon, Jong-Eun (The Graduate School of Education, Ewha Womans University)
  • 이혜숙 (이화여자대학교) ;
  • 임해미 (이화여자대학교 수리과학연구소) ;
  • 문종은 (이화여자대학교 대학원)
  • Received : 2010.01.18
  • Accepted : 2010.05.07
  • Published : 2010.05.31
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Abstract

To understand natural or social phenomena, we need various information, knowledge, and thought skills. In this context, mathematics and sciences provide us with excellent tools for that purpose. This explains the reasons why there is always significant emphasis on mathematics and sciences in school education; some of the general goals in school education today are to illustrate physical phenomena with mathematical tools based on scientific consideration, to encourage students understand the mathematical concepts implied in the phenomena, and provide them with ability to apply what they learned to the real world problems. For the mentioned goals, we extract six fundamental principles for the integrated mathematics and science education (IMSE) from literature review and suggest a instructional design model. This model forms a fundamental of a case study we performed to which the IMSE was applied and tested to collect insights for design and practice. The case study was done for 10 students (2 female students, 8 male ones) at a coeducational high school in Seoul, the first semester 2009. Educational tools including graphic calculator(Voyage200) and motion detector (CBR) were utilized in the class. The analysis result for the class show that the students have successfully developed various mathematical concepts including the rate of change, the instantaneous rate of change, and derivatives based on the physical concepts like velocity, accelerate, etc. In the class, they described the physical phenomena with mathematical expressions and understood the motion of objects based on the idea of derivatives. From this result, we conclude that the IMSE builds integrated knowledge for the students in a positive way.

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