• The Mathematical Education
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.27-40
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• 2011

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and discuss the viewpoint dealing with the fundamental figures-point, line segment, and angle-of elementary school teachers. In fact, our main subjects in this article are as follows; how do elementary school teachers deal with the fundamental figures?, what is the general notion about the fundamental figures of elementary school teachers? Our such subjects come from the survey results about the 'fundamental figures in J. A. Ko(2009); the elementary school students have a tendency to regard the fundamental figures as not mathematical figures. In this article, we discuss mainly the meta-cognitive shift in the transform of notion, for example, from 'congruent' concept to 'equal' concept, about the fundamental figures.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.56 no.6
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• pp.1589-1600
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• 2019

In this paper, we apply the notion of cocyclic maps to the category of pairs proposed by Hilton and obtain more general concepts. We discuss the concept of cocyclic morphisms with respect to a morphism and find that it is a dual concept of cyclic morphisms with respect to a morphism and a generalization of the notion of cocyclic morphisms with respect to a map. Moreover, we investigate its basic properties including the preservation of cocyclic properties by morphisms and find conditions for which the set of all homotopy classes of cocyclic morphisms with respect to a morphism will have a group structure.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.105-116
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• 1986

For any thought and knowledge, its growth and development has close relation with the society where it is developed and grow. As Feuerbach says, the birth of spirit needs an existence of two human beings, i. e. the social background, as well as the birth of body does. But, at the educational viewpoint, the spread and the growth of such a thought or knowledge that influence favorably the development of a society must be also considered. We would discuss the goal and the function of mathematics education in relation with the prosperity of a technological civilization. But, the goal and the function are not unrelated with the spiritual culture which is basis of the technological civilization. Most societies of today can be called open democratic societies or societies which are at least standing such. The concept of rationality in such societies is a methodological principle which completes the democratic society. At the same time, it is asserted as an educational value concept which explains comprehensively the standpoint and the attitude of one who is educated in such a society. Especially, we can considered the cultivation of a mathematical thinking or a logical thinking in the goal of mathematics education as a concept which is included in such an educational value concept. The use of the concept of rationality depends on various viewpoints and criterions. We can analyze the concept of rationality at two aspects, one is the aspect of human behavior and the other is that of human belief or knowledge. Generally speaking, the rationality in human behavior means a problem solving power or a reasoning power as an instrument, i. e. the human economical cast of mind. But, the conceptual condition like this cannot include value concept. On the other hand, the rationality in human knowledge is related with the problem of rationality in human belief. For any statement which represents a certain sort of knowledge, its universal validity cannot be assured. The statements of value judgment which represent the philosophical knowledge cannot but relate to the argument on the rationality in human belief, because their finality do not easily turn out to be true or false. The positive statements in science also relate to the argument on the rationality in human belief, because there are no necessary relations between the proposition which states the all-pervasive rule and the proposition which is induced from the results of observation. Especially, the logical statement in logic or mathematics resolves itself into a question of the rationality in human belief after all, because all the logical proposition have their logical propriety in a certain deductive system which must start from some axioms, and the selection and construction of an axiomatic system cannot but depend on the belief of a man himself. Thus, we can conclude that a question of the rationality in knowledge or belief is a question of the rationality both in the content of belief or knowledge and in the process where one holds his own belief. And the rationality of both the content and the process is namely an deal form of a human ability and attitude in one's rational behavior. Considering the advancement of mathematical knowledge, we can say that mathematics is a good example which reflects such a human rationality, i. e. the human ability and attitude. By this property of mathematics itself, mathematics is deeply rooted as a good. subject which as needed in moulding the ability and attitude of a rational person who contributes to the development of the open democratic society he belongs to. But, it is needed to analyze the practicing and pursuing the rationality especially in mathematics education. Mathematics teacher must aim the rationality of process where the mathematical belief is maintained. In fact, there is no problem in the rationality of content as long the mathematics teacher does not draw mathematical conclusions without bases. But, in the mathematical activities he presents in his class, mathematics teacher must be able to show hem together with what even his own belief on the efficiency and propriety of mathematical activites can be altered and advanced by a new thinking or new experiences.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.20 no.4 s.28
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• pp.561-574
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• 2006

Mathematical creativity has been confused with general creativity or mathematical problem solving ability in many studies. Also, it is considered as a special talent that only a few mathematicians and gifted students could possess. However, this paper revisited the mathematical creativity from a mathematics educator's point of view and attempted to redefine its definition. This paper proposes a model of creativity in school mathematics. It also proposes that the basis for mathematical creativity is in the understanding of basic mathematical concept and structure.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.327-342
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• 2018

The purpose of this paper is to review the domestic research on mathematical modeling by using three dimensional mathematical modeling map composed of perspective axis, domain axis, level axis, and to give direction to mathematical modeling research. The findings of this study show that the domestic research on mathematical modeling focuses on application perspective, notions and classroom domain and secondary level, and that we need various studies with concept formation perspective, system domain, tertiary level, and teacher(education) level on the future work about mathematical modeling.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.141-148
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• 2002

We introduce the concept of gradation of supraopenness. With the concept of gradation of supraopenness, we invesigate the basic properties of H-fuzzy supratopological spaces, H-fuzzy suprainterior and H-fuzzy supraclosure.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.209-213
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• 1989

The efficiency(Pareto optimum) is a type of solutions for multiobjective programs. We formulate duality relations for multiobjective nonlinear programs by using the concept of efficiency. The results are the weak and strong duality relations for a vector dual of the Wolfe type involving invex functions.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.17-41
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• 2004

In this paper, we obtain the intuitionistic fuzzy subgroups generated by intuitionistic fuzzy sets and some properties preserved by a ring homomorphism. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of intuitionistic fuzzy coset and study some of it's properties.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.333-339
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• 2009

In this manuscript, we introduce the concept of an atomic subset of the hyper BCK-algebra and study its properties. Also, we give a characterization of the atomic hyper BCK-algebra and show that there are exactly (up to isomorphism) n atomic hyper BCK-algebras H with |H| = n for any natural number n.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2011

We study some properties of quasi-topological spaces. Also we introduce the concept of Q-continuity and investigate several types of quasi-topology on an SGNS.