• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.55-71
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• 2020

In this study, the situation of publishing middle and high school mathematics textbooks used at the period of the first curriculum were investigated. In the period of the first curriculum, middle and high school textbooks were used from 1956, and middle school textbooks were used until 1965, and high school textbooks were used until 1967. First of all, the announcements of the ministry of education related to the textbook authorization were examined in the government official gazettes of 1956~1967. However, there were considerable typographical errors in these announcements of the ministry of education. So textbooks used at that period were examined, and typographical errors were corrected by cross-checking the bibliographic information.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.13-30
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to investigate the meaning and roles of rhymes in oriental mathematics. To do this, we consider the rhymes in traditional chinese, korean, indian, arabian mathematical books and the mathematical knowledge which they implicate. And we discuss the reasons for which they were often used and the roles which they played. In addition, we suggest how to use them in teaching mathematics.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.137-162
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• 2017

The Chinese algebraic method, the tian yuan shu, was developed during Song period (960-1279), of which Li Ye's works contain the earliest testimony. Two 18th century editors commentated on his works: the editor of the Siku quanshu and Li Rui, the latter responding to the former. Korean scholar Nam Byeong-gil added another response in 1855. Differences can be found in the way these commentators considered mathematical objects and procedures. The conflicting nature of these commentaries shows that the same object, the quadratic equation, can beget different interpretations, either a procedure or an assertion of equality. Textual elements in this paper help modern readers reconstruct different authors' understandings and reconsider the evolution of the definition of the object we now call 'equation'.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.185-199
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• 2017

In tropical geometry, the sum of two numbers is defined as the minimum, and the multiplication as the sum. As a way to build tropical plane curves, we could use Newton polygons or amoebas. We study one method to convert the representation of an algebraic variety from an image of a rational map to the zero set of some multivariate polynomials. Mikhalkin proved that complex curves can be replaced by tropical curves, and induced a combination formula which counts the number of tropical curves in complex projective plane. In this paper, we present close examinations of this particular combination formula.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.77-86
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• 2004

Felix Klein profoundly influenced mathematical developments throughout the world by showing a new direction for modem geometry. He also influenced the lives of excellent scientists like Einstein by reforming mathematical education. The first Felix Klein medal of the Internal Commission on Mathematical Instruction was awarded at ICME-10 in July of 2004. In this article, we discuss Klein's Erlangen Program and investigate his influence on modem mathematics and mathematical education with this medal as momentum.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.275-283
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• 1995

The purpose of this study was to suggest that the history of science be introduced to students in the secondary school to help understand the developmental process of the scientific concepts, especially the concept 'heat'. Reviewing the national and international researches related to students' concept 'heat' revealed that many students tend to grasp the wrong concept of heat based on the caloric theory. Studies on definitions and explanations of the concept 'heat' and related concepts in secondary school science textbooks indicated that the way 'heat' was described could not help students to correct their misconceptions. In conclusion we need to include the historical and developmental process of scientific concepts such as heat in textbooks.

• Journal of architectural history
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• v.1 no.1 s.1
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• pp.162-178
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• 1992

This paper is a study on the type of campuse site plan constructed by Chosun colonial government in japanese period and then the model of the type being the basis on the campus plan. As a result of analysis to the type of function allocation, main axis and reference point, block plan of five high schools constructed in Mid-Meiji Eva in Japan and the campuses in Japanese period, both were composed of same basic types, I make clear that the model of the campus site plan in japanese period was the site plan of five high schools in Japan, as that of higher education facilities in Japan was.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.177-189
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• 2000

This paper describes the design and implementation of Korean History Web courseware using semantic network in order to build learning environment in the viewpoint of cognitive flexibility theory. The most important thing in design for a courseware using semantic network is to build learning environment. The first step to do this is to analyze learning contents and after that we should define the type of link between learning subjects. We should develope the knowledge map which has the link of each type connected with every learning subject.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.75-87
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• 2021

Hirabayashi Ichiei has sought theoretical improvement of educational studies in mathematics from the standpoint that educational studies in mathematics should be practical. His beliefs and subsequent attempts have many implications for Korean educational studies in mathematics. In this regard, it is meaningful to examine his theory of mathematics education. But he is not well-known in Korean community of educational studies in mathematics today. For this reason, His life and theory of mathematics education are outlined.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.105-113
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• 2023

We will suggest a train model to explain the weekly periodic character of Covid19 in South Korea on the first half of 2022, the period of the Omicron variant outbreak. In the model, the daily new infected individuals board a train, divided into 4 compartments. The train moves at night by the length of one compartment. Then the infected are quarantined during the daytime after their compartment reaches the quarantine area. Then it remains empty on the 5-th night after boarding. The parameters of the model are fitted with the daily measured quarantine populations and generate the simulated quarantine populations that hit the real weekly and global peaks.