• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.123-138
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• 2006

In this paper, we confirm through surveys and interviews that it helps students in solving a problem counting the number of combinations to find a structural isomorphism between the given problem and a typical problem with the same mathematical structure. Then we suggest that a problem of distributing balls into boxes might be a good candidate for a typical problem. This approach is coherent to the viewpoint given by English(2004) that it is educationally important to see the connection and relationship between problems with different context but with similar mathematical structure.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.259-270
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• 2019

Haidao Suanjing was introduced into Joseon by discussion in Yang Hui Suanfa (楊輝算法) which was brought into Joseon in the 15th century. As is well known, the basic mathematical structure of Haidao Suanjing is perfectly illustrated in Yang Hui Suanfa. Since the 17th century, Chinese mathematicians understood the haidao problem by the Western mathematics, namely an application of similar triangles. The purpose of our paper is to investigate the history of the haidao problem in the Joseon Dynasty. The Joseon mathematicians mainly conformed to Yang Hui's verifications. As a result of the influx of the Western mathematics of the Qing dynasty for the study of astronomy in the 18th century Joseon, Joseon mathematicians also accepted the Western approach to the problem along with Yang Hui Suanfa.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.590-599
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• 2018

Multivariate finite mixture model is becoming more and more popular in image processing. Performing image denoising from image patches to the whole image has been widely studied and applied. However, there remains a problem that the structure information is always ignored when transforming the patch into the vector form. In this paper, we study the operator which extracts patches from image and then transforms them to the vector form. Then, we find that some pixels which should be continuous in the image patches are discontinuous in the vector. Due to the poor anti-noise and the loss of structure information, we propose a new operator which may keep more information when extracting image patches. We compare the new operator with the old one by performing image denoising in Expected Patch Log Likelihood (EPLL) method, and we obtain better results in both visual effect and the value of PSNR.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.257-266
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• 2016

This paper is a sequel to our paper [3]. Although polynomials in the tianyuanshu induce perfectly the algebraic structure of polynomials, the tianyuan(天元) is always chosen by a specific unknown in a given problem, it can't carry out the role of the indeterminate in ordinary polynomials. Further, taking the indeterminate as a variable, one can study mathematical structures of polynomials via those of polynomial functions. Thus the theory of polynomials in East Asian mathematics could not be completely materialized. In the previous paper [3], we show that Jeong Yag-yong disclosed in his Gugo Wonlyu(勾股源流) the mathematical structures of Pythagorean polynomials, namely polynomials p(a, b, c) where a, b, c are the three sides gou(勾), gu(股), xian(弦) of a right triangle, respectively. In this paper, we show that Jeong obtained his results through his recognizing Pythagorean polynomials as polynomial functions of three variables a, b, c.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈E:수학교육논문집
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.37-57
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• 2018

수학교육에서 Concept Map(개념그림)을 활용하기 시작한 초기에는 Concept Map이라는 그림 안에 수학적 아이디어를 어떻게 표상할 수 있느냐에 초점이 맞추어져 있었다. 하지만, 최근 연구에 따르면 Concept Map이 문제해결력과 밀접한 관련이 있다. 구체적으로 Concept Map은 학생들 사이의 협력적 문제해결의 도구, 문제를 탐구하기 위한 도구, 문제의 구조를 소개하기 위한 도구, 지식의 체계를 개발하고 체계화하는 도구 등으로 사용될 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 Concept Map에 대한 선행연구 분석을 기반으로 Concept Map을 활용한 수학 문제의 구조 분석에 집중하였다. 그 결과 수학 문제 구조 분석을 위한 Concept Map의 활용 방법을 개발하였고, 개발된 자료를 적용하여 실제 수학 문제 분석에 적용함으로써 그 실현 가능성을 확인하였다. 본 연구 결과를 통해 수학 문제 구조의 파악, 수학과 교육과정 및 교과서와 일관성 있는 문제의 개발, 수학 문제의 난이도 분석 등에 효과적으로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.235-263
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• 2009

The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of children's understanding of fractions in mathematics problem solving. Kieren has claimed that the concept of fractions is not a single construct, but consists of several interrelated subconstructs(i.e., part-whole, ratio, operator, quotient and measure). Later on, in the early 1980s, Behr et al. built on Kieren's conceptualization and suggested a theoretical model linking the five subconstructs of fractions to the operations of fractions, fraction equivalence and problem solving. In the present study we utilized this theoretical model as a reference to investigate children's understanding of fractions. The case study has been conducted with 6 children consisted of 4th to 5th graders to detect how they understand factions, and how their understanding influence problem solving of subconstructs, operations of fractions and equivalence. Children's understanding of fractions was categorized into "part-whole", "ratio", "operator", "quotient", "measure" and "result of operations". Most children solved the problems based on their conceptual structure of fractions. However, we could not find the particular relationships between children's understanding of fractions and fraction operations or fraction equivalence, while children's understanding of fractions significantly influences their solutions to the problems of five subconstructs of fractions. We suggested that the focus of teaching should be on the concept of fractions and the meaning of each operations of fractions rather than computational algorithm of fractions.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.167-179
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• 2015

We study the solution of truncated series of Lee Sang-hyeog with the aspect of visualization. Lee Sang-hyeog solved a problem of truncated series by 4 ways: Shen Kuo' series method, splitting method, difference sequence method, and Ban Chu Cha method. As the structure and solution of truncated series in tertiary number is already clarified with algebraic symbols in some previous research, we express and explain it by visual representation. The explanation and proof of algebraic symbols about truncated series is clear in mathematical aspects; however, it has a lot of difficulties in the aspects of understanding. In other words, it is more effective in the educational situations to provide algebraic symbols after the intuitive understanding of structure and solution of truncated series with visual representation.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2012

그래픽으로 표현된 정보는 컴퓨터게임에 익숙한 게임세대들에게 정보를 인지하는데 텍스트보다 선호하는 스타일이다. 또한 수학교육에 있어서도, 그래픽으로 표현된 수학문제를 통해 해를 찾는 학습은 학습자들에게 문제해결 능력을 향상시키는 데 뚜렷한 효과가 있다고 한다. 본 논문에서는 게임세대인 학습자들의 효과적인 학습을 위해, 수학문장을 그래픽적으로 표현하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안하는 방법은 가시성이 우수한 그래픽 요소들을 사용하여 단위정보를 논리적인 구조로 배치하고 단위 정보들 사이의 논리적인 연관성을 기호, 선분, 또는 화살표로 표현하여 게임세대들이 문장의 내용을 인지하지 쉽고 논리적으로 정확하게 이해할 수 있다. 기존의 수학문장의 그래픽표현방법과 달리 제안하는 방법은 문장의 시제와 태까지도 정확하게 표현할 수 있다. 제안하는 방법은 게임세대인 학습자들에게 효과적인 수학학습이 이루어질 수 있도록 학습도구로 사용될 수 있고 또 수학교육용 컴퓨터게임의 학습 스캐폴딩 기능을 위해 사용되는 수학정보의 그래픽표현을 위해 널리 활용될 수 있다.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.519-543
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• 2008

The study has been conducted with 29 children from 4th to 6th grades to realize how they understand addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, and how their understanding influences solving of one-step word problems. Children's understanding of operations was categorized into "adding" and "combination" for additions, "taking away" and "comparison" for subtractions, "equal groups," "rectangular arrange," "ratio," and "Cartesian product" for multiplications, and "sharing," "measuring," "comparison," "ratio," "multiplicative inverse," and "repeated subtraction" for divisions. Overall, additions were mostly understood additions as "adding"(86.2%), subtractions as "taking away"(86.2%), multiplications as "equal groups"(100%), and divisions as "sharing"(82.8%). This result consisted with the Fischbein's intuitive models except for additions. Most children tended to solve the word problems based on their conceptual structure of the four arithmetic operations. Even though their conceptual structure of arithmetic operations helps to better solve problems, this tendency resulted in wrong solutions when problem situations were not related to their conceptual structure. Children in the same category of understanding for each operations showed some common features while solving the word problems. As children's understanding of operations significantly influences their solutions to word problems, they needs to be exposed to many different problem situations of the four arithmetic operations. Furthermore, the focus of teaching needs to be the meaning of each operations rather than computational algorithm.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.1147-1155
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• 2011

In J. Korean Math. Soc, Zhang, Xu and other authors investigated the following problem: what is the structure of finite groups which have many normal subgroups? In this paper, we shall study this question in a more general way. For a finite group G, we define the subgroup $\mathcal{A}(G)$ to be intersection of the normalizers of all non-cyclic subgroups of G. Set $\mathcal{A}_0=1$. Define $\mathcal{A}_{i+1}(G)/\mathcal{A}_i(G)=\mathcal{A}(G/\mathcal{A}_i(G))$ for $i{\geq}1$. By $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}(G)$ denote the terminal term of the ascending series. It is proved that if $G=\mathcal{A}_{\infty}(G)$, then the derived subgroup G' is nilpotent. Furthermore, if all elements of prime order or order 4 of G are in $\mathcal{A}(G)$, then G' is also nilpotent.