• 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.13 no.1
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• pp.19-38
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• 2002

알고리즘이란 ‘유한한 단계를 거쳐 일련의 문제를 해결하기 위한 명확하고 체계적인 방법’ 으로써 수량에 관련된 문제를 보다 신속 ${\cdot}$ 정확하게 처리하기 위하여 역사적으로 다양한 알고리즘이 존재 ${\cdot}$ 변천해 왔다. 계산기가 발명되기 전까지는 지필 알고리즘이 매우 강조되어 왔으나 계산기가 상용화되면서 지필알고리즘에 대한 효용성과 활용도가 점차 줄어들고 있으나 지필 알고리즘은 수학학습의 기초 ${\cdot}$ 기본인 동시에 뼈대로써 그 가치와 역할은 여전히 중요하다. 그러나 표준화된 지필 알고리즘에 대한 지나친 강조로 인해 학생들은 대수적 구조나 계산 원리를 바르게 이해하지 못한 채 반복 연습을 통해 익힌 표준 알고리즘을 기계적으로 적용하여 답을 구하는 경우가 많으며, 이로 인해 학생들은 수학학습에 대한 불안감과 기피현상이 보이고 있다. 또 인간의 창조적 사고활동의 최종적인 산물인 표준 알고리즘은 대안적인 알고리즘에 비해 효율성에서 앞서지만 학생들의 사고 수준에서는 그 원리를 이해하기 힘든 경우가 있을 것이다. 따라서 수학교육의 목적 중의 하나인 문제 해결력을 기르기 위해, 그리고 표준 알고리즘의 가치와 효율성을 인식시키고, 수학학습에 대한 불안감을 줄이기 위해 표준 알고리즘뿐만 아니라 대안적인 알고리즘을 병행하여 지도할 필요가 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.63-78
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• 2006

미국에서 학교 수학 수업에서의 개방적 접근은 일본과 미국 연구자들의 공동연구의 결과물이다. 우리는 그것에 대한 세 가지의 측면을 실례로 살펴보면 접근을 시도하겠다. : 1) 개방된 과정(open process)(문제의 해답에 이르는 방법이 여러 가지이다: 2) 개방형 문제(open-ended problems)(문제에 대한 정답이 여러 가지가 될 수 있는 문제), 3) 일본에서 '문제로부터 문제(from problem to problem)'라고 불리는 것 혹은 문제고안(problem formulating)하기(학생들이 새로운 문제를 명확하게 나타내기 위해 자신의 생각을 써 내려 가는 것)수학 지도에서 일본의 개방적 접근에 대한 우리의 이해를 바탕으로, 우리는 미국에서 보다 효과적인 수학 지도를 위한 몇 가지 방법을 선택 적용해 보았다. 이러한 접근의 대부분은 학습 계획안을 만들 때 여러 교사가 함께 참여하고 일련의 토론과 수정과정을 거친 뒤, 많은 부분이 개선되고 효과적인 계획안을 만들어 낸다는 점에서 미국의 수학교사들에게 새로운 것이다. 또한 이 접근법에서는 교사가 문제를 해결하는 과정에서 학생 개개인이나 그룹을 활동적으로 관찰하여 그들의 활동을 비교하고 토론한다.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.557-580
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• 2012

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics(CCSSM) is a blueprint for school mathematics in 2010s of the United States. CCSSM can be divided into two major parts, the standards for mathematical content and the standards for mathematical practice. This study focused on the latter. Mathematical practice comes from the mathematical process in 'Principles and standards for school mathematics(NCTM, 2000)' as well as the mathematical proficiency in 'Adding it up(NRC, 2001)'. It is composed of eight standards which mathematically proficient students are expected to do. From Korean perspective, it can also be comparable with the mathematical process which contains mathematical problem solving, mathematical reasoning, and mathematical communication and was provided by the 2009 revised national curriculum for mathematics in Korea. However, few focused the standards for mathematical practice among the studies related to CCSSM in Korea. Moreover, there is a study that even ignores the existence of the standards for mathematical practice itself. This study aims to understand the standards for mathematical practice through analysing the document of CCSSM and its successive materials for implementing the CCSSM. This understanding will help effective implementation of the mathematical process in Korea.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.101-116
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to survey mathematics teacher's cognition of proof along with their proof forms of expression and proof ability, and to explore the relationship between their proof scheme and teaching practice. This study shows that mathematics teachers tend to regard proof as a deduction from assumption to conclusion and that they prefer formal proof with mathematical symbols. Mathematics teachers also recognize that prof is an important area in school mathematics but they reveal poor understanding of teaching methods of proof. Teachers tend to depend on the proof style employed in mathematics textbooks. This study demonstrates that a proof scheme is a major factor of determining the teaching method of proof.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.475-492
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze the United States Elementary Mathematics textbooks "Everyday Mathematics", focused on area of the probability. The concept of probability as qualitative probability is taught from Kindergarten in EM curricula for progressive mathematising. EM have reflected both perspectives in probability which are a frequency perspective and a classical perspective. And EM includes abundant activities for remedying the misconceptions of probability. On the basis of the results from this analysis, we have five suggestions which are helpful for the revision of the Korean national curriculum.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.655-676
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• 2008

This paper analyzed contents related to statistics in the 7th elementary mathematics curriculum in conjunction with main changes in the recent revised curriculum. This paper then provided detailed analyses of textbooks and workbooks in terms of main contents, instructional methods of graphs, and comprehension of graphs required to students in order to look closely at how such instructional materials would put the vision of the curriculum into action. It is expected that the issues and suggestions stemming from this analysis are informative in constructing new textbooks and workbooks.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-21
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• 2010

This paper analyzed the contents and instructional methods of various plane figures presented mainly in a series of elementary mathematics textbooks on the basis of the analysis of related contents in the 2007 revised national mathematics curriculum. As such, this paper provided detailed analyses of how textbooks would implement the vision and intention of the curriculum, how the definition of each plane figure in the textbooks might be different from its mathematical definition, and how textbooks would introduce each plane figure. It is expected that the issues and suggestions stemming from this analysis will be informative in designing new instructional materials.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.273-286
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• 2005

We teach students to explore geometric figures by its properties and establish relationships between some basic figures. The concept of parallel line play very im-portant roles in such geometry learning process. In this study, 1 investigate the con-cept of parallel line we teaching in elementary school. Students have wrong concept images for parallel line, which is the result of the elementary school mathematics text books, where only typical cases for parallel line Is presented and there is no method to find if two lines is parallel or not. Therefore, we should teach explicitly students to find if two lines is parallel or not. The depth study on it is needed to develope students' geometric thought level.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.47-61
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• 2019

The objectives of this study were to explore the difficulties of high school mathematics teachers while guiding students and to examine whether the perception of difficulties varied by gender, position, and work experience. This study randomly chose 36 mathematics teachers as participants and they were living in six cities or provinces in South Korea. The results showed that teachers experienced difficulties while guiding students, in student evaluation and teaching and learning methods, in the order of magnitude. There was no statistical difference by gender, position, and work experience. Unlike the results of previous studies suggesting that mathematics content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge would help students guide students, the results of this study revealed that they had relatively little impact on student guidance.