• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.3
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• pp.141-167
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• 1997

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.23-40
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• 2002

Historically, the use of algorithms has been emphasized in the mathematics curriculum at the elementary school mathematics. The current reform movement in our country are seemed to emphasize the importance of algorithms in favor of problem-solving approaches, the conceptualization of mathematical processes and applications of mathematics in real world situations. Recently, children may come to school with a fairly well-developed attitude about mathematics and mathematical ideas. That is, they do not come to school and to learning mathematics with a clean slate. Because they have already formed some partial mathematical concepts in a wide variety of contexts. Many kindergarten children have attended pre-school programs where they played with blocks, made patterns, and started adding and subtracting. It seems that there are psychological change attitudes of the children in upper grades toward learning mathematics. In our elementary school mathematics, almost every student are still math anxious or have developed math anxiety because of paper-pencil test. In these views, this paper is devoted to introduce and apply to second grade students in ND-elementary school in Taegu City the new method for learning addition and subtraction so called ‘Mrs Weill's Hill’, which is believed as a suitable method for children with mathematical teaming disabilities and Math anxiety.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.157-180
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• 2011

This paper analyzed about gender difference in the achievement of underachievers of high school students while learning using technology. Participants were composed of 67 underachievers on first grade in high school located in a metropolitan city. That had never used a mathematics educational calculator before. Target participants were divided into two groups: experiment group that studied activity papers with a CAS calculator. And control group that studied the same activity papers using only paper-and-pencil. The content of the activity papers for the two groups was the same, but the structure differed. The two groups completed mathematics achievement tests both before and after the activity papers. The results are that find out no difference of the mathematics achievement between boys and girls in each group, and that the mathematics achievement of boys in experiment group are better than one of boys in control group, and also girls.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.257-278
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• 2014

The concept of zero(0) and calculations involving 0 are a few of the most difficult topics that students experience in learning mathematics. Therefore, it implies that proper guidance to help students understand the desirable concept of 0 and acquire calculating process involving 0 should be provided when we teach numbers and operations. This study aims to investigate instructional situations in relation to the errors of 0 and to search for efficient ways to teach them based on the previous research. To do this, we analysed elementary mathematics textbooks and workbooks. The result showed that $0{\div}$(a number) and the division of which quotient includes 0 as a middle digit lacked in current textbooks and workbooks. We devised the learning activities of the two topics for 3rd grades and 4th grades, respectively. We expect that the activities will be helpful to devise learning activities of textbook and suggest some implications for teaching the calculations involving 0.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.31 no.4 s.347
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• pp.32-34
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• 1998

수학은 고대 ㆍ근대 ㆍ현대에 이어지는 문명의 발달과 함께 성장하고 탈바꿈해 왔다. 그리스 기하학은 고대수학으로 수. 양. 함수 등은 근대수학으로 그리고 현대엔 연산작용 등의 수학적 구조로 변천해 왔다. '0의 발견'으로 새로운 세계를 연 수학은 기록용이던 숫자가 계산용으로 바뀌었으며 0은 컴퓨터의 발명에 이르기까지 인류사회에 큰 영향을 미쳤다.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.291-319
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate students' thinking and understanding through working on Worked-out Examples on numbers and operations, specifically, radical and real numbers and operations in the middle grades. For this purpose, we developed a set of Worked-out Examples; middle school students independently worked on them. Then two students were interviewed. These data were analyzed by using the framework of mathematical proficiency. The data analysis suggested that the students seemed to go through the processes involving a combination of understanding and computation, computation and reasoning, and understanding, computation and reasoning. Also, it appeared that most of the students have difficult solving problems involving with radical and real numbers in related to strategic competence.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.611-626
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to explore the composite properties of linear functions using CAS calculators. The meaning and processes in which technological tools such as CAS calculators generated to instrument are reviewed. Other theoretical topic is the design of an exploring model of observing-conjecturing-reasoning and proving using CAS on experimental mathematics. Based on these background, the researchers analyzed the properties of the family of composite functions of linear functions. From analysis, instrumental capacity of CAS such as graphing, table generation and symbolic manipulation is a meaningful tool for this exploration. The result of this study identified that CAS as a mediator of mathematical activity takes part of major role of changing new ways of teaching and learning school mathematics.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.41-52
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• 2010

Ancient Indian mathematical works, all composed in Sanskrit, usually consisted of a section of sturas in which a set of rules or problems were stated with great economy in verse in order to aid memorization by a student. And rules or problems of the mathematics were transmitted both orally and in manuscript form.Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the decimal number system, arithmetic, equations, algebra, geometry and trigonometry. And many Indian mathematicians were appearing one after another in Ancient. This paper is a comparative study of mathematics developments in ancient India and the other ancient civilizations. We have found that the Indian mathematics is quantitative, computational and algorithmic by the principles, but the ancient Greece is axiomatic and deductive mathematics in character. Ancient India and the other ancient civilizations mathematics should be unified to give impetus to further development of mathematics education in future times.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.535-547
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• 2002

본 논문은 교육현장에서 자바(Java)를 이용한 수치계산 애플릿(Applet)을 개발할 경우 수식을 인식하여 그 결과를 실행하고 보여주는 심볼릭 연산을 구현하기 위한 알고리즘 개발과 다양한 입력식을 처리하기 위한 효율적인 자료구조를 제안한다. 구현된 패키지내의 클래스는 변수와 상수, 다양한 연산자를 처리하기에 적합하며 분석된 정보를 통해 사칙연산의 처리, 연산자 우선순위의 처리, 심볼릭 연산, 다항식, 방정식, 함수의 그래프 작성, 간단한 미적분 처리를 하는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.221-221
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• 2010

고대의 인도수학은 산스크리트어로 쓰여 있고, 최초의 기하학은 베다문헌으로 경전 속에 포함되어 있으며, 성스런 제단이나 사원을 설계하기위해서 발전하였다. 고대 인도의 많은 수학자들은 힌두교의 성직자들로 일찍이 십진법, 계산법, 방정식, 대수학, 기하학, 삼각법 등의 연구에 공헌하였다. 인도 기하학은 양적이며 계산적이지만 원리를 가지고 문제를 해결하는 특성이 있다. 그러나 고대 그리스 기하학은 공리적이고 연역적으로 전개되는 완전한 학문으로 발전하였다. 고대 인도와 타 문명권의 기하학을 비교하는 것은 오늘날 문제해결을 중시하는 현대과학의 시대에 가치와 의미가 있는 것으로 사료된다.