A Study on the Analysis of Inquiry Activities of Elementary Mathematics Textbook and the Development of Reorganization Materials

초등수학 교과서 탐구활동 분석 및 재구성 연구

2007 Curriculum Revision adopted new Inquiry Activities in mathematical textbooks. So it is critical to analyze the problems of actual application of Inquiry activities in the classrooms. For this purpose, we analyzed the Inquiry activities of Measurement Area of the textbooks and find the appropriate solutions. Secondly, we develop the reorganization materials to fix and solve the existing problems found in the previous problem analysis, and apply the development materials and examine the effects afterwards. The results of the survey indicated that most of teachers are well aware of the importance of Inquiry Activities. However, many teachers answered that Inquiry activities does contain neither diverse strategic approaches nor solutions accommodating with various learning levels of students. The most difficult points to educate Inquiry Activities are that it is difficult to teach students based on individual learning level and that activities consist of mainly short answers that makes it difficult to do in-depth Inquiry Activities. Analyzing Inquiry Activities in the textbook shows that Inquiry Activities in some chapters were constructed as simple sentence questions or presented with the solving process in the questions themselves. The following application classes were implemented by partially taking advantage of the newly developed reorganization materials. Then, the effects were measured by before and after questionnaires, the survey to teachers, and the results of activities. The reorganization materials were effective at arousing the curiosity from students as well as enabling the natural ability-level driven classes.

2007 개정 교육과정에 따른 수학교과서에 처음으로 도입된 '탐구활동'이 어떻게 지도되고 있는가? 수학 탐구활동의 내용으로 적합하게 구성되어있는가? 수학적 탐구활동의 전제와 내용은 어떤 것이 좋은가? 이와 같은 문제에 답하기 위해 먼저 설문조사를 실시하여 탐구활동에 대한 교사들의 인식, 교육 현장에서의 지도 실태와 탐구활동 내용 및 유형의 적합성, 지도의 어려움과 재구성 자료의 필요성에 대해 알아보았다. 그리고 수학과 목표를 참고한 분석 기준을 설정하여 측정영역에서 교과서의 탐구활동을 분석하여 재구성할 필요가 있는 부분에 대해서는 대안을 제시하고 그 결과를 수업에 적용하여 학생들의 반응을 기술하였다.