• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.343-360
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• 2022

In mathematics classes, the verbal explanation may contain diverse mathematical concepts and principles in short sentences. It may also include mathematics symbols and terms that might not be used in everyday life. Therefore, students may need particular listening ability in order to understand and participate in mathematics communication. Unlike general listening, the listening ability for mathematics classes may require student to integrate their mathematical and linguistic knowledge. The aim of this study is to reveal the subdomains of listening ability for mathematics classes in a elementary school. I categorized listening ability for mathematics classes in a elementary school from the literature. The categories of listening ability for mathematics are Interpretive Listening, Evaluative Listening, Hermeneutic Listening, Selective Listening, Pretend Listening, and Ignored Listening. In order to develop a framework for understanding listening ability for mathematics classes, I investigated a hierarchy of 412 South Korean elementary teachers' perception. Through a web-based survey, the teachers were asked to rank order their beliefs about and students' listening ability. Findings show that teachers' perceptions about listening ability for mathematics classes are divergent from current research trends. South Korean elementary teachers perceived Interpretive Listening as the most important listening.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2023

Mathematics Listening Ability(MLA) refers to the ability to listen to and grasp the meaning of speech language containing mathematical concepts and principles, distinguishing it from daily life and listening in other subject classes. According to literature, MLA might be divided into six types. Among them, interpretation, discovering, evaluating, and evaluation may indicate an attitude that correctly listens to the meaning of the language used in mathematics classes. On the other hand, selective, pretend, and ignore are types of listening attitudes that are not appropriate. Based on the statistical analysis of 834 3rd to 6th graders and a total of 44 homeroom teachers I developed a MLA survey items for elementary school students. In this study, principal component analysis was conducted to verify reliability in the development of survey items, and expert review and correlation analysis of survey results were conducted to verify validity. In addition, the validity was verified by statistically analyzing the survey results of students and their homeroom teachers. Based on literature and statistical analysis, I developed a MLA Survey items(for students) consisting of 25 questions and a mathematical resolution measurement tool(for teachers) consisting of 26 questions.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.279-282
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• 2001

해마다 실시되고 있는 대학수학능력시험의 듣기 평가시험에 있어서, 고사장 및 지점별 음향 성능에 기인한 레벨 편차와 명료도를 산출하여 학생 선발의 공공성과 객관성을 검토해 보고자 한다. 일반적으로 듣기 평가가 이루어지는 각 고사장은 듣기 평가 실시에 지장이 없는 고등학교 교실로 지정하고 있지만, 균등한 음 환경을 제공해야 하는 시험의 성격에 반해 학교 자체의 방송 시설을 그대로 사용하는 것은 평가의 형평성 및 객관성에 충실하지 못하게 되는 요인이 된다. 따라서, 각 고사장의 확성 시스템에 따른 음성 전달품질과 수험생간의 좌석별 음압 레벨 및 명료도를 평가하였고, 실험 결과 RASTI를 비롯한 음성 및 음절 명료도를 나타내는 파라메터에서 좌석별로 큰 편차가 있는 것으로 분석되었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.679-687
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• 2020

The present study aims to investigate lexical coverage of BNC (British National Corpus) word lists and 2015 Basic Vocabulary of Ministry of Education in 2020 EBS-linked textbooks and CSAT. For the data analysis, AntWordProfiler was used to find lexical coverage and frequency. The findings showed that Students can understand 95% of the tokens with a vocabulary of BNC 3,000 and 4,000 word-families in 2020 EBS-linked listening and reading books respectively. 98% can be understood with 4,000 word-families in the EBS-linked listening book while the same lexical coverage can be covered with 8,000 word-families in the EBS-linked reading textbook. By the way, 95% of the tokens can be understood with 2,000 and 4,000 word-families in 2020 CSAT listening and reading tests respectively, while 98% requires 4,000 and 7,000 word-families in the 2020 listening and reading tests respectively. In summary, students should understand more words in 2020 EBS-linked textbooks than in 2020 CSAT tests confirming Kim's (2016) findings. In summary, students should understand more words in 2020 EBS-linked textbooks than in 2020 CSAT tests.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.619-640
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• 2011

The study aims the introducing the items for the assessment of mathematical thinking including mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and communication and the analyzing on the responses of the 5th grade pupils. We categorized the area of mathematical reasoning into deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and analogy; problem solving into external problem solving and internal one; and communication into speaking, reading, writing, and listening. And we proposed the examples of our items for each area and the 5th grade pupils' responses. When we assess on pupil's mathematical reasoning, we need to develop very appropriate items needing the very ability of each kind of mathematical reasoning. When pupils solve items requesting communication, the impact of the form of each communication seem to be smaller than that of the mathematical situation or sturucture of the item. We suggested that we need to continue the studies on mathematical assessment and on the constitution and utilization of cognitive areas, and we also need to in-service teacher education on the development of mathematical assessments, based on this study.

• School Mathematics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.77-95
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• 2003

We have web-based online discussion to implement active interaction and a variety of communicative activities. I have gathered the following research questions to study about the meaning of web-based online discussion as a mathematical communication teaching method. First, what changes are there in students mathematical communication ability in web-based online discussion\ulcorner Second, how do students evaluate the web-based online discussion experience\ulcorner In this web-based online discussion, groups of middle school first grade 34 students and each group had chatting at 8 times for 10 weeks. I analyzed what they had discussed by the prints that they had sent me by e-mail. I also surveyed what they had experienced and analyzed them. In this research, the online web based discussion has given positive influence on students' competence of speaking, writing, reading and listening which are crucial to mathematical communication. Students' mathematic thinking power improved and attitudes to mathematics have become more positive.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.57-83
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• 2013

This study focuses on the use of mathematics notes in elementary school mathematics classes as a way of practicing mathematical communication, which was introduced as one of the main themes in the 2007 Mathematical Curriculum Revision. We investigate, through interviews with teachers and questionnaires, why and how mathematics notes are used and what are included in them, finding out various aspects of the use of mathematics notes such as the purposes, the necessities and the types. We draw some helpful suggestions for using mathematics notes in classes which has positive effects such as enhancing students' mathematical thinking and calculation ability. This study is to provide teachers with an appropriate information and basic materials on the use of mathematics notes.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.183-197
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• 2023

Mathematical listening ability(MLA) refers to the capability to listen to speech languages that contain mathematical principles and concepts and understand their meanings, distinguishing it from daily life and listening in other subject classes. In this study, I investigated 834 elementary school students' MLA adapting a MLA survey items. Through the statistical analysis results of the survey, I confirmed that students' MLA had a significant correlation with gender, grade, and school location. Female students' MLA was statistically significantly higher than that of male students. MLA increased with grade and then decreased again in 6th grade. In addition, students' MLA was statistically significant differences according to the location of the school. The results of this study might be used as the basis for follow-up research and development of teaching and learning materials related to MLA.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.487-490
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• 2002

학교 교육의 특성상 많은 부분이 교실에서의 음성정보 전달에 의해 이루어지고 있는 점을 감안하면 바람직한 청취환경의 개선이 검토되어야 한다. 또한 중${\cdot}$ 고등학교의 수학능력시험의 국어, 영어 듣기평가 및 다양한 어학 시험이 시청각 시설을 통해 이루어지고 있는 실정이므로 교실의 음환경은 매우 중요한 요소라하겠다. 본 논문에서는 음환경을 좌우하는 음원의 위치에 따라 명료 도가 어떻게 달라지는지를 실험을 통하여 검증하고, 명료도가 높고, 교실 전체에 균등한 분포를 보이는 음원의 위치를 찾아내고자 하였다. 교실 내의 음원의 위치로는 일반적으로 많이 쓰이고 있는 column(벽면 노출형)과 ceiling(천정 매입형) 위치와 임의의 음원 cluster(전면 중앙)를 선정하여 음장 파라메터를 측정한 결과 RASTI 는 세 타입 모두 $0.54\~0.55$로 값으로 근소한 차이를 보이고 있으며, 잔향시간은 ceiling>cluster>column의 순서로 나타났다. 일반적으로 잔향과 명료도와의 관계는 반비례하는 것으로 알려져 있으나, 실험 결과 잔향시간이 1.33초로 가장 긴 column 스피커의 경우 D50 값이 약 $47\%$로 가장 높은 값으로 나타났다. 이것은 column형 스피커의 경우 음원과 각 학생의 위치에 대한 평균 직접음선거리가 가장 짧기 때문인 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.99-120
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• 2001

The purpose of this thesis is to find the guiding direction of mathematical communication in lower grade students of elementary school and to present a new direction about the effect of using concrete material in communication. It is expected that mathematical communication increases when concrete material is used for the students of the lower grades, who are in concrete operational period. Therefore, this study ai s to investigate what characteristics there are in mathematical communication of second grade students and what effect concrete materials have on mathematical communication and learning. The analysis of the teaching record shows that the second grade students use alternative terms in the process of communication since they are not familiar with mathematical symbols or terms, which is a characteristic of communication in a mathematics class in which concrete material is used. In the process of teaming the students apply their living experiences to their teaming. Since a small number of students lead class, the interaction between students is also led by them. The direction of communication in a small group is not centered around solution of a problem, and most students show a more interest in finding answers than in the process of learning. The effect that concrete material has on communication plays an important role in promoting students' speaking activity; it allows students to identify and correct their errors more easily. It also makes students' activities more predictable, and it increases a small group activities through the medium of concrete material. However, it was also noticed that students' listening activities are not appropriately developed since they do not pay attention to a teacher who uses concrete material. The effects that concrete material has on mathematics class can be summarized as follows. Concrete material promotes students' participation in class by triggering their interest of learning of mathematics and helps them to understand the course of learning. It also helps the teaming and formation of concepts for children of low academic performance. And it makes a phased learning possible according to students' ability to use concrete material and to solve a problem. Based upon the results above mentioned, the use of concrete material is absolutely needed in mathematics classes of lower grade elementary school students since it increases communication and gives much influence on mathematics learning. Therefore, teachers need to develop teaching or learning method which can help increase communication, considering the characteristics of students' communication.