• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.447-462
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to Investigate the preservice elementary teachers' pedagogical content knowledge of addition and subtraction. The subjects for data collection were 29 preservice elementary teachers and data were collected through open ended problems. The findings imply that the preservice elementary teachers show low level of understanding of addition and subtraction such as the word problem posing and the contexts of part-part-whole and compare. The research results indicate that the preservice elementary teachers possess primarily a procedural knowledge of pedagogical content knowledge and don't understand relationship with real-world situation. This study provide the information available on developing program for preservice elementary teachers.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.353-366
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• 2014

Recently, the widespread usage of 3D-Printing has grown rapidly in popularity and development of a high level technology for 3D-Printing has become more necessary. Given these circumstances, effectively using mathematical knowledge is required. So, we have developed free web tools for 3D-Printing with Sage, for mathematical 3D modeling and have utilized them in college education, and everybody may access and utilize online anywhere at any time. In this paper, we introduce the development of our innovative 3D-Printing environment based on Calculus, Linear Algebra, which form the basis for mathematical modeling, and various 3D objects representing mathematical concept. By this process, our tools show the potential of solving real world problems using what students learn in university mathematics courses.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.19 no.2 s.22
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• pp.445-452
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• 2005

본 연구는 중 고등학교 교사 50명에 대하여 기하 문제의 논증기하적 또는 해석기하적 문제해결 전략이 학생들의 평가에 어떤 영향을 미치는가를 조사한 것이다. 중학교에서 고등학교로 진학하면 도형의 문제에 대한 해석기하적인 문제해결 능력은 교육과정 상 대단히 중요하게 가르쳐야 할 내용이다. 유클리드 기하에 바탕을 둔 논증기하의 지식은 좌표평면의 도형을 방정식으로 나타내고 연구하는 해석기하의 기본이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 많은 학생들은 논증기하적 문제해결을 선호하는 반면 해석기하적 문제해결은 어려워한다. 또한 논증기하적 문제 형태에는 논증기하적 문제해결 전략, 해석기하적 문제 형태에는 해석기하적 문제해결 전략을 구사하는 경향을 보인다. 본 연구는 중 고등학교 교사들의 기하 문제에 대한 내용 지식이 학생 평가에 미치는 영향에 초점이 맞추어져 있다.

• School Mathematics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.503-526
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• 2016

The study aimed at determining the identity of mathematics essay test in the university entrance examination. For this purpose, a document research was conducted for higher order thinking and mathematics essay ability and it analyzed the goal of assessment and the tendency of problem settings and looked into mathematics essay problems of twenty-five universities. As a result, the study found out that evaluation factors of mathematics essay test requires higher order thinking ability including mathematical knowledge and essay ability such as mathematical knowledge, understanding, problem solving, logical and critical thinking, creative ability, power of expression, argument skills. Also, problems from previous mathematics essay tests were set mainly to assess mathematical knowledge, understanding and problem solving. Based on the findings, the past mathematics essay tests in university entrance examination in Korea that require logical and critical thinking, creative ability, power of expression, argument skills were a rather small percentage of questions.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.51-67
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• 2017

Analogical reasoning is a mathematically useful way of thinking. By analogy reasoning, students can improve problem solving, inductive reasoning, heuristic methods and creativity. The purpose of this study is to analyze the analogical reasoning of preservice mathematics teachers while constructing quadratic curves defined by eccentricity. To do this, we produced tasks and 28 preservice mathematics teachers solved. The result findings are as follows. First, students could not solve a target problem because of the absence of the mathematical knowledge of the base problem. Second, although student could solve a base problem, students could not solve a target problem because of the absence of the mathematical knowledge of the target problem which corresponded the mathematical knowledge of the base problem. Third, the various solutions of the base problem helped the students solve the target problem. Fourth, students used an algebraic method to construct a quadratic curve. Fifth, the analysis method and potential similarity helped the students solve the target problem.

• School Mathematics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.255-274
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate the responses of pre-service elementary school teachers to the task that require to apply mathematics knowledge for teaching and from this investigation to draw some conclusions about teacher education. To do the study, task was to develop teaching materials and devise lesson plan for introducing the concept of plain figure 'kite'. For gathering data, 77 pre-service elementary school teachers were selected from the University of Education located in G city. Several conclusions were drawn as follow: first, task for applying MKT is needed to check whether pre-service teachers can apply. Second, assessment is needed to check what kind of MKT do pre-service elementary school teachers have.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.11
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• pp.145-157
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• 2001

학습자가 수학적 지식이 정말로 가치 있고 유용한 것이라는 실감을 갖게 하기 위해서는 학습자가 학습의 주체로써 능동적인 참여 기회와 환경의 제공해야 할 것이다. 그러나 지금까지의 수학 학습은 주로 교과서에 제시된 내용과 순서에만 의존하여 교사가 자신의 관점에 근거하여 학생들을 가르치기 위해 수업을 설계하고 실행하고 평가함으로 해서 이미 만들어진 수학을 전수 받아 이를 암기하고 반복 연습하는 경우가 많았다. 특히 수학학습에서 가장 기본 ${\cdot}$ 기초가 되는 알고리즘 학습의 경우 학생들이 가지고 있는 기존의 경험이나 지식에 근거하여 그들 스스로 알고리즘을 구안 ${\cdot}$ 적용해 볼 수 있는 기회를 통해 문제를 해결하는 경험이 중요하다고 보겠다. 이런 맥락에서 본고에서는 인간의 창조적 활동의 산물인 표준화된 알고리즘을 직접적으로 도입 ${\cdot}$ 적용하기에 앞서서 학습자의 수준에서 창의적으로 알고리즘을 고안 ${\cdot}$ 활용해 볼 수 있도록 하기 위해 초등학교 수학에서 알고리즘을 지도하는 방안에 대해 알아보고자 한다

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.343-364
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• 2017

Despite the significance of functional thinking at the elementary school level there has been lack of research on teachers who play a major role in making students be engaged in functional thinking. This study surveyed 119 elementary school teachers to investigate their knowledge of functional thinking for teaching. A written assessment for this study was developed with a focus on the knowledge of mathematical tasks and instructional strategies to teach functional thinking. The results of this study showed that many teachers were able to design tasks corresponding to both the additive relationship and the multiplicative relationship, and to justify some strategies to promote functional thinking. However, some teachers had lack of understanding with regard to the core ideas of functional thinking. Based on these results this study is expected to suggest implications on what aspects of knowledge are further needed for elementary school teachers to promote students' functional thinking.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.23-42
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• 2007

Learners who have taken learner-centered instruction is expected to construct conceptually mathematical knowledge which is. If so, they can have some ability to solve problems they are confronted with in the first time. To know this, First graders who have been in learner-centered instruction during 1 school year was given 7+52+186 which usually appears in the national curriculum for 3rd grade. According to the results, most of them have constructed the logic necessary to solve the given problem to them, and actually solve it. From this, it can be concluded that first, even though learners are 1st graders they can construct mathematical knowledge abstractly, second, they can apply it to the new problem, and third consequently they can got a good score in a achievement test.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.11
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• pp.415-435
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• 2001

본 연구의 첫 번째 목적은 수학 교사가 가지고 있는 수학의 교수-학습에 대한 개념을 알아보고자 한 것이다. 두 번째 목적은 수학 교사의 수학 단원에 대한 선호도와 그 이유를 알아보고자 한 것이다. 세 번째 목적은 확률 개념과 통계 개념에 대한 교육적 지식을 알아보고자 한 것이다. 본 연구에서 나타난 결과에 의하면 수학 교사의 수학의 본질에 대한 개념은 문제해결적 관점보다 플라톤적 관점이 더 우세한 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 가장 좋아하는 단원으로 도형 부분을 가장 많이 꼽았으며 가장 싫어하는 단원으로 확률과 통계를 가장 많이 꼽았다. 또한 가르치기 가장 쉬운 단원으로 방정식과 부등식 부분을 가장 많이 꼽았으며 가르치기 가장 어려운 단원으로 도형 부분을 가장 많이 꼽은 것으로 나타났다.