• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.369-392
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• 2023

Equity in mathematics education focuses on the relationship between social inequality caused by factors including culture and race. Equity in mathematics education has recently been recognized as one of the important issues of mathematics education and may provide grounds for setting the new direction of mathematics education for the future society. However, research on mathematics education equity in South Korea is still insufficient. The purpose of the paper is to provide implications for mathematics education research by reviewing the the literature regarding mathematics education equity. Focusing on 195 previous studies, I analyzed the significance of discussions on mathematics education equity in mathematics education, the concept of mathematics education equity, and research questions. In addition, I divided the previous studies into five categories based on their research questions: mathematics teachers, mathematics curriculum, mathematics classrooms, mathematics assessment, and socio-cultural environments surrounding mathematics classrooms. The analysis of the study are expected to provide implications in terms of new research questions and methods to domestic mathematics education researchers.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.61 no.4
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• pp.559-579
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• 2022

Research on lexicon and language provides insights into the interests, values and practices of a community where individuals use the language. The International Classroom Lexicon Project, in which ten countries participated, identified own country's mathematics teaching and learning lexicons by investigating mathematics classroom instruction from teachers' perspectives in a speaking-oriented community. This study, as an extension of the International Classroom Lexicon Project research, investigated pedagogical lexicons used in 「Mathematics and Education」 journals specialized for Korean professional mathematics teachers published by the Korean Society of Teachers of Mathematics. Using the text mining approach, we also traced how these pedegogical lexicons have changed quantitatively over the past 10 years with a diachronic perspective. As a results, several novel terms were found in the writing-oriented community, which were not identified in the speaking-oriented community. In addition, we could discover some pedagogical lexicons have increased statistically significantly and some lexicons appeared(increased) rapidly across years. This implies the teacher community's values and zeitgeist by reflecting these changes in the sociocultural, incidental and social changing (i.e., periodical change) contexts. This study has value as a first step in understanding zeitgeist for mathematics education in Korean mathematics teacher community according to changes of times over the past 10 years. Also, this study contributes to the methodological insights: the text mining technique provides a methodological contribution to researching changes in interests, values and zeitgeist according to these changes in the times.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.21-49
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• 2004

본 논문은 학생중심 수학교실문화를 구현하려고 노력하는 3명의 초등학교 교사들이 공동으로 1년간의 프로젝트에 참여하면서 경험하게 되는 교수법 개발 과정에 관한 사례를 소개한다. 이를 바탕으로, 수학 교사 학습 및 교수법 개발에 있어서의 성공과 난제가 무엇인지 살펴보고, 본 프로젝트에서 새롭게 적용해 본 교사 중심의 정기적인 수업 논의 모임을 통한 탐구 공동체 형성과정과 이를 통한 교사 학습에 관한 쟁점을 논의한다.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.267-283
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• 2013

Mathematical justification is the process through which one's claim is validated to be true based on proper and trustworthy data. But it serves as a catalyst to facilitate mathematical discussions and communicative interactions among students in mathematics classrooms. This study is designed to investigate the effects of mathematical justification on students' problem-solving and communicative processes occurred in a mathematics classroom. In order to fulfill the purpose of this study, mathematical problem-solving classes were conducted. Mathematical justification processes and communicative interactions recorded in problem understanding activity, individual student inquiry, small and whole group discussions are analyzed. Based on the analysis outcomes, the students who participated in mathematical justification activities are more likely to find out various problem-solving strategies, to develop efficient communicative skills, and to use effective representations. In addition, mathematical justification can be used as an evaluation method to test a student's mathematical understanding as well as a teaching method to help develop constructive social interactions and positive classroom atmosphere among students. The results of this study would contribute to strengthening a body of research studying the importance of teaching students mathematical justification in mathematics classrooms.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.105-110
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• 2000

This paper is discussing about the culture of mathematics classroom for problem solving. The mathematics classroom which we have to aim at is where every students make proper belief and attitude about mathematics, and also can express their own idea and make question freely. In that classroom, the students can meet with various problem solving methods and communicate with other students, and then elaborate their own method.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.163-172
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• 2001

Recently, higher discussions are made up on the culture of mathematics classrooms. These discussions are mostly about desirable culture and reform of culture in mathematics education. This paper is to offer a view point of seeing the culture of mathematics classroom. We need to look straightly our classroom as well as to reform the culture of mathematice classroom. This paper recommend sociomathematical norms to analyze and reform classroom culture. A elementary mathematics classroom was analyzed to understand our own culture of mathematics classroom.

• School Mathematics
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.625-642
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• 2009

This paper presents an overview of theories about ethnomathematics to seek for implications for multicultural mathematics education. Initiated by anthropological inquiries into mathematics outside of Europe, research of ethnomathematics has revealed the facets of mathematics as a historicocultural construct of a community. Specifically, it has been shown that mathematics is culturally relative knowledge system situated within a certain communal epistemological norms. This implies that indigenous mathematics, which had traditionally been regarded as primitive and marginal knowledge, is a historicocultural construct whose legitimacy is conferred by the system of the communal epistemological norms. The recognition of the cultural facets in mathematics has faciliated the reconsideration of what is legitimate mathematics. what is mathematical competence, and what teaching and learning mathematics is an about. This paper inquires multicultral discourses of mathematics education that research of ethnomathematics provides and identifies its implications concerning multicultural mathematics education.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.181-200
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• 2011

The focus of gifted education program for math should not only be on how to select gifted students but also on how to magnify students' potential ability. This thesis supports Vygotsky's view, which provides an insight into gifted education field as an 'acquired giftedness' theory. The issues in this thesis suggest proper classroom models for current gifted education program together with moderate classroom atmosphere and optimum role of teachers.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.3 s.20
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• pp.1-21
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• 2004

중국의 수학교육에서는 두 가지 기본, 즉 기본지식과 기본기술을 주창하는 전통이 있다. 이러한 전통의 직접적인 결과는, 중국 학생들이 국제수학시험(예를 들어 1989년도의 IAEP)에서 뛰어난 성적을 거둘 수 있는 능력을 갖추거나 국제수학올림피아드(IMO)에서 빼어난 성적을 거두는 것으로 나타난다. 우리는 이 강연에서, 중국 교사들이 "두 가지 기본"을 왜 그리고 어떻게 가르치는가와, 그들의 "두 가지 기본"을 학생의 창의성과 어떻게 결합시키는가를 보일 것이다. 개방형 문제해결 기법은 그러한 목적을 달성하기위한 한 가지 방법이다. 이 강연에서 생각할 주제들은 다음과 같다. 문화적 배경; 계산속도; "연습이 완전함을 만든다"라는 가설; 교실에서의 효율성; "두 가지 기본"과 개인적 성장 사이의 균형. 특히, 중국의 수학 교육자는 개방형 문제해결 기법과 "두 가지 기본" 초석 사이의 연결성에 더 많은 주의를 기울이고 있다.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.46 no.2 s.117
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• pp.173-192
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• 2007

We define mathematical learning as a process of overcoming framing difference of teachers and students, two main subjects in a mathematics class. We have reached this definition to the effect that we can grasp a mathematical classroom per so and understand students' mathematical learning in the context. We could clearly understand the process in which the framing differences are overcome by analyzing mutual negotiation of informants in specific cultural models, both in its form as well as in its meaning. We review both of the direct and indirect forms of negotiation while keeping track of 'evolution of subject' in terms of content of negotiation. More specifically, we discuss direct negotiation briefly and review indirect negotiation from three distinct themes of (1) argument structure, (2) revoicing, and (3) development patterns and narrative structure of proof. In addition, we describe the content of negotiation under the title of 'Evolution of Subject.' We found that major modes of mutual negotiation are inter-reference and appropriation while the product of continued negotiation is inter-resemblance.