• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.181-192
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• 2013

This study aims to explore scientific reasoning that students and their teachers constructed in elementary science classroom discourses in terms of basic reasoning types; deduction, induction, and abduction. For this research, data were collected from 13 classes of 4th grade science activities during a period of three months and analyzed three types of scientific reasoning in elementary school science discourses. We found that deduction (one discourse segment), induction (one discourse segment), and deduction-abduction (two discourse segments) were presented in the discourses. They showed that: first, scientific reasoning proceeded explicitly or implicitly in elementary science discourses; second, the students and their teachers have potentials to increase the quality of reasoning depending on their inter-subjectivity; and last, the students' background knowledge were very important in the development of their reasoning. Implication and remarks on science education and research were presented based on this results as well.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.641-654
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• 2011

In order to grow students' rational and creative problem-solving ability which is one of the primary goals in mathematics education. students' proper understanding of mathematical concepts, principles, and rules must be backed up as its foundational basis. For the relevant teaching strategies. National Mathematics Curriculum advises that students should be allowed to discover and justify the concepts, principles, and rules by themselves not only through the concrete hands-on activities but also through inquiry-based activities based on the learning topics experienced from the diverse phenomena in their surroundings. Hereby, this paper, firstly, looks into both the meaning and the inductive reasoning process of mathematical principles and rules, secondly, suggest "learning through discovery teaching method" for the proper teaching of the mathematical principles and rules recommended by the National Curriculum, and, thirdly, examines the possible discovery-led teaching strategies using inductive methods with the related matters to be attended to.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.328-331
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• 2013

As digital ecosystem has been rapidly transforming into the mobile based platform, several mobile operating system, which is in charge of user interface with mobile device has been appeared. This research suggest critical factors affecting success and failure of several commercial mobile operating systems from Palm OS appearing in 1996 to main mobile OSs appearing in 2013. For this, we analyse several mobile operating OS cases, elicit factors affecting success and failure of mobile OS, and conduct ID3 based inductive learning analyses based on elicted factors and values in case dataset. Through this, we draw rules in success and failure of mobile OS and suggest strategic implications for the commercial success of mobile OS.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.100-109
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• 2007

Object recognition of service robots is very important for most of services such as delivery, and errand. Conventional methods are based on the geometric models in static industrial environments, but they have limitations in indoor environments where the condition is changable and the movement of service robots occur because the interesting object can be occluded or small in the image according to their location. For solving these uncertain situations, in this paper, we propose the method that exploits observed objects as context information for predicting interesting one. For this, we propose the method for modeling domain knowledge in probabilistic frame by adopting Bayesian networks and ontology together, and creating knowledge model dynamically to extend reasoning models. We verify the performance of our method through the experiments and show the merit of inductive reasoning in the probabilistic model

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.123-148
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to figure out the perceptional characteristics of mathematically gifted elementary students by comparing the mathematical reasoning ability and errors between mathematically gifted elementary students and non-gifted students. This research has been targeted at 63 gifted students from 5 elementary schools and 63 non-gifted students from 4 elementary schools. The result of this research is as follows. First, mathematically gifted elementary students have higher inductive reasoning ability compared to non-gifted students. Mathematically gifted elementary students collected proper, accurate, systematic data. Second, mathematically gifted elementary students have higher inductive analogical ability compared to non-gifted students. Mathematically gifted elementary students figure out structural similarity and background better than non-gifted students. Third, mathematically gifted elementary students have higher deductive reasoning ability compared to non-gifted students. Zero error ratio was significantly low for both mathematically gifted elementary students and non-gifted students in deductive reasoning, however, mathematically gifted elementary students presented more general and appropriate data compared to non-gifted students and less reasoning step was achieved. Also, thinking process was well delivered compared to non-gifted students. Fourth, mathematically gifted elementary students committed fewer errors in comparison with non-gifted students. Both mathematically gifted elementary students and non-gifted students made the most mistakes in solving process, however, the number of the errors was less in mathematically gifted elementary students.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.527-545
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• 2008

One of the education purpose of the section "Figures" in the eighth grade is to develop students' deductive reasoning ability, which is basic and essential for living in a democratic society. However, most or middle school students feel much more difficulty or even frustration in the study of formal arguments for geometric situations than any other mathematical fields. It is owing to the big gap between inductive reasoning in elementary school education and deductive reasoning, which is not intuitive, in middle school education. Also, it is very burden for students to describe geometric statements exactly by using various appropriate symbols. Moreover, Usage of the same symbols for angle and angle measurement or segments and segments measurement makes students more confused. Since geometric relations is mainly determined by the measurements of geometric objects, students should be able to interpret the geometric properties to the algebraic properties, and vice verse. In this paper, we first compare and contrast inductive and deductive reasoning approaches to justify geometric facts and relations in school curricula. Convincing arguments are based on experiment and experience, then are developed from inductive reasoning to deductive proofs. We introduce teaching methods to help students's understanding for deductive reasoning in the textbook by using stepwise visualization materials. It is desirable that an effective proof instruction should be able to provide teaching methods and visual materials suitable for students' intellectual level and their own intuition.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.927-941
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• 2013

In this paper, we investigate and analysis high school students' generalization of cosine rule using analogy, and we study teaching and learning methods improving students' analogical thinking ability to improve mathematical thinking process. When students can reproduce what they have learned through inductive reasoning process or analogical thinking process and when they can justify their own mathematical knowledge through logical inference or deductive reasoning process, they can truly internalize what they learn and have an ability to use it in various situations.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.69-77
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• 2005

본 연구는 초등학생들의 논리적 사고력을 신장시키기 위해 지식 기반 프로그램인 선언적 프로그램을 통해 교육현장에서도 적용할 수 있는 프로그래밍 교육을 제언하고자 한다. 학생들에게 논리적 사고 중에서도 협의의 논리적 사고 즉, 기호적 사고, 분석적 사고, 추론적 사고, 종합적 사고를 분석적 방법을 통해 실제 프로그래밍을 해 봄으로써 연역적 사고 또는 귀납적 사고를 보다 효과적이고 체계적인 프로그래밍을 할 수 있도록 지도함으로써 제 8차 교육과정에서의 컴퓨터 교육과정의 일부분으로서의 프로그래밍의 마인드를 제시하였다. 따라서 본 연구는 선언적 프로그램을 통해서 초등학교 학생들의 논리적 사고력 신장를 위하여 프로그래밍 교수학습의 방법적인 측면을 제시하고자 한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.14
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• pp.273-295
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• 2001

통계는 연역적 사고를 강조하는 수학의 다른 영역과 달리 귀납적 추론과 직관적 사고를 요구한다. 따라서 학교 수업에서 학생들이 실제적인 상황을 모델링 할 수 있도록 하며, 주어진 상황에서 자료를 올바르게 산출하고 분석 할 수 있도록 적절한 지도 방법이 필요하다. 그렇지만 학교 수업은 대다수 알고리즘 연습 위주의 통계 학습-지도로 통계적 사고 교육이 제대로 이루어지지 못하고 있다. 이로 인해 학생들은 형식적인 통계 처리에는 익숙하지만 통계 교육의 궁극적 목적인 변이성과 자료를 현명하게 다루는 능력이 부족하다. 본고에서는 피상적인 기계적 계산위주의 통계교육에서 실제적인 자료를 수집하고, 이를 적절히 가공 처리하여 정보의 가치를 높일 수 있는 통계 지도 방향을 탐색해 보고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.97-136
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• 2006

비트겐슈타인의 규칙따르기 개념에 대한 올바른 이해는 그의 후기 철학의 궤적을 살피는데 있어서 중요하다. 비트겐슈타인의 규칙따르기 문제에 대해 회의적 해석으로 유명한 크립키는 "탐구"의 201절을 문제 삼으며 '역설'의 문제를 새로운 형식의 철학적 회의주의로 간주했다. 본 논문은 규칙의 역설에 대한 크립키의 논증이 비트겐슈타인의 관점과 무엇 때문에 충돌하는지를 밝히면서 그와 함께 비트겐슈타인이 '규칙의 역설'을 제시한 궁극적 이유를 규명하는데 있다. 규칙의 역설에 대한 크립키 논증의 의의와 한계를 비판적으로 다룸으로서 필자는 다음과 같은 점을 주장할 것이다. 비트겐슈타인에게 있어서 규칙은 우리들의 행동을 이끄는 지침의 역할을 하며, 규칙의 문제를 추론과 연관시켜 수학이 엄격한 규칙을 따르는 인간의 지적 활동이며, 규칙에 대한 비트겐슈타인의 관점은 귀납적 회의주의와 무관하다. 이런 맥락에서 비트겐슈타인을 회의주의자 혹은 상대주의자로 평가하는 것은 문제가 있다. 그런 점에서 비트겐슈타인은 오히려 어떤 이론이나 선입견에 사로잡히지 않은 봄의 방식을 강조한 철학자로 평가하는 것이 옳다.