• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.99-108
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• 2021

The benefits of teaching learning materials to others have been shown on learning achievement. Anxiety is one of the obstacles in learning and it has been shown that math anxiety is strongly associated with math achievement. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate whether teaching others benefits math anxiety when university students learn statistics. 59 students who enrolled in statistics class participated and 30 students performed group assignment of teaching peer in a group and 29 students did not. Other than group assignments, the instructor, lectures, assignment of solving the problems, and exams were all the same. The results showed that the math anxiety of students who did group assignments of teaching was decreased at the end the semester. Increased math anxiety yielded negative attitudes toward learning statistics, resulting in poor learning performance. Furthermore, the relationship between math anxiety and the attitudes toward leaning statistics was moderated by teaching others. The results suggest that teaching others has an effect on reducing math anxiety and thus, possibly yield persistent learning gains.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.8
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• pp.189-207
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• 1999

본 연구의 목적은 초 ${\cdot}$ 중학생들의 수학적 신념을 알아보고, 그러한 신념을 형성하는 요인들을 수학 교실의 상호작용에서 찾아보는 것이었다. 이를 위해, 초등학교 5, 6학년과 중학교 1, 2, 3학년 학생들의 수학적 신념을 질문지로 조사하였으며 각급 학교의 수학 교실에서 벌어지는 교수-학습 과정을 비디오로 촬영하여 각 교실의 사회적 규범들을 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과로서, 학생들은 수학은 이미 만들어진 규칙과 용어들로 이루어졌고 그 규칙에 따라 주어진 문제를 풀어 답을 구하는 것이 수학적 활동이라고 인식하고 있었다. 한편, 이러한 신념은 각급 교실에 형성된 사회수학적 규범과 일치했으며, 특히 개념설명과 새로운 전략 및 오류에 대한 반응과 관련된 사회수학적 규범이 학생들의 수학적 활동을 제한함으로써 그들의 신념을 결정하고 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.127-142
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• 2003

This study was done to research and analyze the reasons why students feel anxious about learning mathematics. The aim of this study are to learn how to decrease the anxiety toward mathematics, and to find ways to give the learners confidence in their ability to study as well as increase their mathematical competence. The research method used was the development of a mathematics program through which the learners could have easy access to the mathematics to be studied.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.62 no.3
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• pp.327-340
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• 2023

The value that students consider important in math learning may vary depending on the student's socio-cultural background and personal experience. Although socio-cultural backgrounds are very diverse, I considered overseas vs domestic Koreans, and secondary school levels as variables in terms of students' educational experiences. Overseas students had a lower perception of the value in mathematics than domestic students, especially about understanding mathematics knowledge and the value of the latest teaching and learning methods. Middle school students perceived the value of mathematics as an activity higher than that of high school students, and high school students perceived student agency as a higher value than middle school students. In addition, I considered meta-affect as one of the individual students' experiences, finally meta-affect was a variable that could explain value perception in math learning, and in particular, affective awareness of achievement, affective evaluation of value, and affective using were significant. From the results, I suggested that research on ways to improve the value and the meta-affect in math learning, test to measure the value of students in math learning, the expansion of research subjects to investigate the value in math learning, and a teacher who teaches overseas Koreans are needed.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.369-384
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• 2007

This study examined and compared the level of mathematical anxiety according to the types of students' characteristics based on the former research study showing that there exists a close relationship between characteristics and mathematical anxiety. The subjects of this study are 159 students enrolled in Chungnam Gongju and Kyunggi-do Ahnyang. They were categorized into groups following various standards such as preference index(E-1, S-N, T-F, J-P), ability & disposition, 16 types of characteristics. Then these were tested for types and the level of mathematical anxiety by the factors of mathematical anxiety. The results show that Type E students show the greatest anxiety in learning motivation, and Type N students in the pedagogy of teaching and loaming for the subfactor of mathematical anxiety. Further, Type NT students respond strongly to the pedagogy of teaching and loaming in psychological ability and disposition, which shows that mathematical anxiety and sub-factors of mathematical anxiety are closely somehow related.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.57-80
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• 2015

This study was to develop the mathematics test-preparation and the test-taking strategies scales for elementary school students. Elementary school students and teachers participated in developing factors and items of the mathematics test-preparation and test-taking strategies scales. The subjects were 857 students in 6th grade from 13 elementary schools in G-city. The variable-centered approach such as exploratory factor analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, and reliability analyses were used for validating the scales. The results of the study were as follows. First, the mathematics test-preparation and the test taking strategies scales for elementary school students consisted of three strategies: cognitive, metacognitive, and learning resources management strategies, respectively. Second, the mathematics test-preparation strategies scale for elementary school students comprised of three factors and 23 items, and the mathematics test-taking strategies scale three factors and 24 items. The scales could be used to assess elementary students' mathematics test-preparation and test-taking strategies and to further develop programs for enhancing strategies use.

• School Mathematics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.61-75
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• 2013

This study analyzed Korean students' affective characteristics in mathematical learning according to school and sex by Factor Analysis and Cognitive Diagnosis Theory. In numerical affective achievements by Factor Analysis, there are mean differences between schools, i.e. elementary school and secondary school. And there are sexual differences within schools and boys show more positive achievement than girls. By Cognitive Diagnosis Theory, I investigated 6 affective attributes' proportions that students achieved according to school and sex. Middle school students' proportion is highest in self-control and anxiety and the attribute that students achieved most in all school is cognizing mathematical value. Boys show higher proportion in self directivity, interest and confidence than girls, but girls show higher proportion in anxiety than boys. In personal profiles, the proportion of students who achieved 5 attributes except anxiety is highest.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.3 s.20
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• pp.209-226
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• 2004

본 연구는 이강섭 ${\cdot}$ 황동주 ${\cdot}$ 서종진(2003)의 개방형적인 접근의 수학 창의성 반응에 따라 수학적 자기효능감의 차이를 조사한 것이다. 수학적 자기효능감이 높다고 하더라도 독창성이나 창의성에서는 낮은 점수를 받은 학생이 있으며, 수학적 자기효능감이 낮은 학생일지라도 유창성에서는 높게 나타나는 경우가 있다. 그러므로 수학 창의성은 수학적 자기 효능감과는 다른 특별한 능력이고 수학 창의성 중에서 유창성은 아마 동기 능력과 관련이 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 수학 창의성 교수학습 방법을 개발하는데 있어 인지적인 요인뿐만 아니라 동기적인 요인도 포함하여 개발하여야 할 것이다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.1 s.18
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• pp.173-182
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• 2004

TIMSS-R 등 국제적 검사 결과로부터 알 수 있듯이 우리 학생들의 수학교과에 대한 정의적 영역의 성취도는 매우 낮은 실정이다. 진정한 의미의 수학적 힘은 인지적 영역과 함께 정의적 영역에 대한 의미 있는 학습을 통해서 길러진다는 사실을 생각할 때, 이는 우리 수학교육이 당면하고 있는 심각한 문제점이 아닐 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 이미 밝혀진 수학 기피요인들을 이용하여 학년이 올라감에 따라서 우리 학생들의 수학적 성향이 어떻게 변화하는지를 살펴보고 수학적 성향의 교육과 관련하여 몇 가지 제안을 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.89-109
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• 2020

This study aims to improve teacher education by analyzing the causes and backgrounds of which pre-service mathematics teachers experience learning difficulties on the topic of discrete mathematics. To this end, we conducted a questionnaire and an evaluation on the topic of discrete mathematics, and the obtained data were analyzed. The results show that (1) pre-service mathematics teachers need to share their perceptions of the need for discrete mathematics education; (2) a review of the adequacy of the discrete mathematical content and its credits are required; (3) the causes of their learning difficulties need to be looked at from a different perspective than the learning factors. And two implications were obtained. First, it is necessary to study the systematicity and sequence of content elements of discrete mathematics in the aspect of its continuity of curriculum of secondary school and university. Second, it is required consideration for adjusting the ratio of discrete mathematics to secondary teachers' employment examination.