• School Mathematics
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.387-407
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• 2014

Gender differences have been given major attention in mathematics education in the context of pursuing gender equity in instructional and learning environment. It had been traditional belief that male students would outperform female students in mathematics, especially in the areas as geometry. This belief has been given doubts by cumulated empirical evidences that gender differences are gradually diminishing or even reversing its direction as time goes on. In this study, gender differences in geometry were explored using TIMSS 8th grade mathematics data administered in TIMSS 2003, 2007, and 2011, based on a cognitive diagnostic modeling(CDM) approach. Among various CDM models, the Fusion model was employed. The Fusion model has advantages over other CDM models in that it provides more detailed information about gender differences at the attribute level as well as item level and more mathematically tractable. The findings of this study show that Attribute 3(Three-dimensional Geometric Shapes) revealed statistically significant gender differences favoring male students in TIMSS 2003 and 2007, but did not show significant differences in TIMSS 2011, which provides an additional empirical evidence supporting the recent observation that gender gap is narrowing. In addition to the general trends in gender differences in geometry, this study also provided affluent information such as gender differences in attribute mastery profiles and gender differences in relative contributions of each attribute in solving a particular item. Based on the findings of the CDM approach exploring gender differences, instructional implications in geometry education are discussed.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.373-394
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• 2016

The "Figure Equation" chapter of current high school curriculum prevents students from relating the concept with what they studied in middle school Euclidean geometry. Woo(1998) concerns that the curriculum introduces the concept merely in algebraic ways without providing students with opportunities to relate it with their prior understanding of geometry, which is based on Euclidean one. In the present study, a sequence of GeoGebra-embedded-geometry lessons was designed so that students could be introduced to and solve problems of the Analytic Geometry by triggering their prior understanding of the Euclidean Geometry which they had learnt in middle school. The study contributes to the field of mathematics education by suggesting a sequence of geometry lessons where students could introduce to the coordinate geometry meaningfully and conceptually in high school.

• School Mathematics
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.147-164
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• 2009

This study investigated the development of geometrical thinking levels of the under achievers at mathematics through supplementary classes according to van Hiele's learning process by stages using mathematical journal writing. We selected five under achievers at mathematics among the fourth graders. We examined their geometrical thinking levels in advance and interviewed them to collect basic data related to their family backgrounds and their attitude toward mathematics and their characteristics. Supplementary classes for the under achievers were conducted a couple of times a week during 12 weeks. Each class was conducted through five learning stages of van Hiele and journal writing was applied to the last consolidating stage. After 12th class had been finished, posttest on geometrical thinking levels was conducted and the journals written by the pupils were analyzed to find out changes in their geometrical thinking levels. The result is that three out of five under achievers showed one or two level-up in their geometrical thinking levels, though the other two pupils remained at the same level as the results by the pretest. Moreover we found that mathematical journal writing could provide the pupils with opportunities to restructure the content which they study through their class.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.12
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• pp.155-170
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• 2001

중등학교 수학교육 분야에서 기하 영역과 관련된 많은 연구들을 볼 수 있는데, 이들 중에서 도형에 관련된 다양한 개념 자체에 대한 심도 있는 논의는 많이 이루어지지 않았다. 예를 들어, 우리에게 가장 친숙한 개념들 중의 하나가 넓이임에도 불구하고, 왜 한 변의 길이가 a인 정사각형의 넓이가 a$^2$인가? 와 같은 물음은 그리 쉽지 않은 질문이 될 것이다. 그리고, 다각형의 넓이 자체는 다양한 수학 문제의 해결을 위한 중요한 도구이지만, 넓이를 활용한 다양한 문제해결의 경험을 제공하지 못하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 다각형들의 넓이를 규정하는 공식들을 유도하고, 유도된 넓이의 공식들을 활용한 다양한 문제해결의 아이디어를 제시하고, 이를 통해, 다각형의 넓이를 활용한 효율적인 수학 교수-학습을 위한 접근을 모색할 것이다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.39-51
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• 2009

The purpose of this article is to study characteristics of tangram as instructional media in combinatorialgeometric point of view, and to present basic materials and direction for efficient tangram activities in gifted education upon systematical analysis of methods of finding solutions. We can apply x=a+2b+4c to find all possible combination of solutions in tangram activities not as trial-and-error method but as analytical method. Through teacher's questions and problem posing in activities using tangram, we systematically came up with most solution and case of all possible combinations be solution in classifying properties of pieces and combining selected pieces.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.103-119
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• 2010

This study aims to figure out the characteristics of the mathematical ability of multicultural Korean elementary school learners. This was done by analyzing the results of a mathematics diagnostic test given to multicultural Korean first and second year elementary school students. The findings of this study mainly support the following three. First, it was indicated that, regardless of whether the students are multicultural or not, more second-year students had difficulty in understanding mathematics than the first-year students. Specifically, a higher percentage of second-year students were below the reference point (cut-off point) than was the case in the first-year learners, which pattern of the overall Korean students was consistent with that of multicultural Koreans. Second, concerning the sub-fields of mathematics, higher proportion of the students fell below the cut-off point in 'numbers and arithmetics' area than in 'measure and geometry,' which pattern was again the same with the multicultural students. Third, it was implied that, in addition to mathematically more complex questions, linguistically complex sentential representations contributed to increasing the difficulty of the test items. It is suggested that care be taken to enhance linguistic processing and to employ well-defined terms.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.283-300
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• 2011

Since elementary students are in the concrete operational stages, they have to learn mathematics using intuitive methods such as visualization, observation, operation, experiment instead of formal approach. For this, we should present the various intuitive methods in curriculum and textbook. It is because that curriculum and textbook are important tools to students when they study mathematics. So, this paper intended to analyze the instructional content by intuitive principle in elementary mathematics curriculum, textbook and curriculum guide. The results are as follows: there is an intuitive principle in only character of mathematics in curriculum. I can't find the intuitive principle in other areas in curriculum. There are 12 intuitive principles in figures area, 1 in measurement area, and 2 in probability and statistics area in curriculum guide. But intuitive principles which are used are inclined to restricted to intuitive principle via representation obtained in the usual experience. Finally, I suggest some implications about teaching via intuitive principles, curriculum, and writing textbook based on the this findings.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.70-75
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• 2021

Grouping and classifying similar designs in design increase efficiency in terms of management and provide convenience in terms of use. Using artificial intelligence algorithms, this study attempted to classify textile designs into four categories: dots, flower patterns, stripes, and geometry. In particular, we explored whether it is possible to find and explain the regions of interest underlying classification from the perspective of artificial intelligence. We randomly extracted a total of 4,536 designs at a ratio of 8:2, comprising 3,629 for training and 907 for testing. The models used in the classification were VGG-16 and ResNet-34, both of which showed excellent classification performance with precision on flower pattern designs of 0.79%, 0.89% and recall of 0.95% and 0.38%. Analysis using the Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanation (LIME) technique has shown that geometry and flower-patterned designs derived shapes and petals from the region of interest on which classification was based.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.215-238
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• 2016

The 2015 national revised curriculum was notified officially the last year. The intent and direction of the revision caused more or less change for mathematical contents to be taught and is expected to cause a considerable change in math class. In the level of elementary school mathematics, it turned that several contents were deleted or moved to the upper grades because the revision focused especially both on reducing students' burden of learning and on fostering the mathematical key competences. This study aims to examine the relevance of the change through investigation of the national curriculums for elementary school mathematics since 1946. The mathematical contents to be analyzed in this study were mixed calculation of natural numbers, mixed calculation of fractions and decimal fractions, position and direction of objects, are/hectare and ton, the range of numbers and estimating, surface and volume of cylinders, pattern and correspondence, and direct/inverse proportionality, which were changed in any aspect relative to 2009 national revised curriculum. Based on the results of these analyses, the discussion will provide some suggestions for setting the direction of elementary mathematics curriculum.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.99-115
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to look into whether this mathematising learning utilizing realistic context has an effect on the mathematical thinking. To solve the above problem, two 5th grade classes of D Elementary School in Seoul were selected for performing necessary experiments with one class designated as an experimental group and the other class as a comparative group. Throughout 17 times for six weeks, the comparative group was educated with general mathematics learning by mathematics and "mathematics practices," while the experimental group was taught mainly with mathematising learning using realistic context. As a result, to start with, in case of the experimental group that conducted the mathematising learning utilizing realistic coherence, in the analogical and developmental thoughts which are mathematical thoughts related to the methods of mathematics, in the thinking of expression and the one of basic character which are mathematical thoughts related to the contents of mathematics, and in the thinking of operation, the average points were improved more than the comparative group, also having statistically significant differences. The study suggested that it is necessary to conduct subsequent studies that can verify by expanding to each grade, sex and region, develop teaching methods suitably to the other content domains and purposes of figures, and demonstrate the effects. In addition to those, evaluation tools which can evaluate the mathematical thinking processes of children appropriately and in more diversified methods will have to be developed. Furthermore, in order to maximize mathematising for each group in each mathematising process, it would be necessary to make efforts for further developing realistic problem situations, works and work sheets, which are adequate to the characteristics of the upper and lower groups.