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An Analysis on the Competence and the Methods of Problem Solving of Children at the Before of School Age in Four Operations Word Problems (학령 전 아이들의 사칙연산 문장제 해결 능력과 방법 분석)

  • Lee, Dae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.381-395
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this paper is to examine the competence and the methods of problem solving in four operations word problems based on the informal knowledges by five-year-old children. The numbers which are contained in problems consist of the numbers bigger than 5 and smaller than 10. The subjects were 21 five-year-old children who didn't learn four operations. The interview with observation was used in this research. Researcher gave the various materials to children and permitted to use them for problem solving. And researcher read the word problems to children and children solved the problems. The results are as follows: five-year-old children have the competence of problem solving in four operations word problems. They used mental computation or counting all materials strategy in addition problem. The methods of problem solving were similar to that of addition in subtraction, multiplication and division, but the rate of success was different. Children performed poor1y in division word problems. According to this research, we know that kindergarten educators should be interested in children's informal knowledges of four operations including shapes, patterns, statistics and probability. For this, it is needed to developed the curriculum and programs for informal mathematical experiences.

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Addressing the New User Problem of Recommender Systems Based on Word Embedding Learning and Skip-gram Modelling

  • Shin, Su-Mi;Kim, Kyung-Chang
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2016
  • Collaborative filtering(CF) uses the purchase or item rating history of other users, but does not need additional properties or attributes of users and items. Hence CF is known th be the most successful recommendation technology. But conventional CF approach has some significant weakness, such as the new user problem. In this paper, we propose a approach using word embedding with skip-gram for learning distributed item representations. In particular, we show that this approach can be used to capture precise item for solving the "new user problem." The proposed approach has been tested on the Movielens databases. We compare the performance of the user based CF, item based CF and our approach by observing the change of recommendation results according to the different number of item rating information. The experimental results shows the improvement in our approach in measuring the precision applied to new user problem situations.

The Study on Elementary Preservice Teachers' Content Knowledge in Arithmetic and Algebra Word Problems Solving Strategy (산술과 대수 영역의 문장제 문제해결 전략에 대한 초등 예비교사의 내용지식 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Hak
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.12
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    • pp.1083-1099
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze that The arithmetic and algebraic word problem solving skill, strategy preference, and assessment ability of elementary preservice teachers is investigated using a statistical methodology. The research findings are as follows. First, elementary preservice teachers demonstrated logical and delicate problem solving behaviors in arithmetic and algebraic word problem solving. And elementary preservice teachers prefer to create a formula and table strategy in problem solving of the arithmetic question. Second, there was meaningful difference in the math and english elementary preservice teachers' appreciations with significant level of 0.05. And there was not meaningful difference in the 1 and 4 grade elementary preservice teachers' appreciations with significant level of ${\alpha}=0.05$. Results of the study suggest that teachers education course need to improve elementary preservice teachers' word problem solving skill, strategy preference, and assessment ability in the arithmetic and algebraic.

Knowledge is Key to Variability in Solving Algebraic Word Problems

  • Ng, Swee Fong
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.311-325
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    • 2011
  • In this paper I propose that teaching students the most efficient method of problem solving may curtail students' creativity. Instead it is important to arm students with a variety of problem solving heuristics. It is the students' responsibility to decide which heuristic will solve the problem. The chosen heuristic is the one which is meaningful to the students.

Automatic Word Spacing for Korean Using CRFs with Korean Features (한국어 특성과 CRFs를 이용한 자동 띄어쓰기 시스템)

  • Lee, Hyun-Woo;Cha, Jeong-Won
    • MALSORI
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    • no.65
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    • pp.125-141
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    • 2008
  • In this work, we propose an automatic word spacing system for Korean using conditional random fields (CRFs) with Korean features. We map a word spacing problem into a classification problem in our work. We build a basic system which uses CRFs and Eumjeol bigram. After then, we analyze the result of inner-test. We extend a basic system added by some Korean features which are Josa, Eomi and two head Eumjeols of word extracting from lexicon. From the results of experiment, we can see that the proposed method is better than previous methods. Additionally the proposed method will be able to use mobile and speech applications because of very small size of model.

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Use of Word Clustering to Improve Emotion Recognition from Short Text

  • Yuan, Shuai;Huang, Huan;Wu, Linjing
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2016
  • Emotion recognition is an important component of affective computing, and is significant in the implementation of natural and friendly human-computer interaction. An effective approach to recognizing emotion from text is based on a machine learning technique, which deals with emotion recognition as a classification problem. However, in emotion recognition, the texts involved are usually very short, leaving a very large, sparse feature space, which decreases the performance of emotion classification. This paper proposes to resolve the problem of feature sparseness, and largely improve the emotion recognition performance from short texts by doing the following: representing short texts with word cluster features, offering a novel word clustering algorithm, and using a new feature weighting scheme. Emotion classification experiments were performed with different features and weighting schemes on a publicly available dataset. The experimental results suggest that the word cluster features and the proposed weighting scheme can partly resolve problems with feature sparseness and emotion recognition performance.

Study on Chinese Character Borrowing in Korean Language (우리말 중 한자차용 실태 고찰 - 중국어의 한자차용 사례와의 비교를 중심으로)

  • PARK, SEOK HONG
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.33
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    • pp.359-384
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    • 2013
  • There is linguistic phenomenon that Korean syllable, morpheme and word are substituted with Chinese Character. These phenomenon is called Chinese Character Borrowing, the Chinese character used here is called Borrowed Chinese Character. Whereas borrowing Chinese character in Chinese is used for borrowing only sound for different word, borrowing Chinese character in Korean is used for assigning new meaning. Hence, by borrowing Chinese character in Korean, a syllable which had no meaning originally get new meaning, morpheme and word meaning has changed. At advertisement and campaign, Chinese Character Borrowing has lots of linguistical advantage such as visual immediacy, effectiveness of meaning expression. However, there are number of cases found that violate grammar rule and word constitution practice by Chinese Character Borrowing. For this reason, Chinese Character Borrowing has the problem polluting Korean along with another foreign words. Thus, this paper focus on study Chinese Character Borrowing phenomenon in Korean, and analysis its effectiveness and impact in Korean. In addition, analysis the problem of Borrowed chinese Character, and suggestion several alternative for right use of Korean is followed.

An Analysis on the Elementary 2nd·3rd Students' Problem Solving Ability in Addition and Subtraction Problems with Natural Numbers (초등학교 2·3학년 학생들의 자연수의 덧셈과 뺄셈에 대한 문제해결 능력 분석)

  • Jeong, So Yun;Lee, Dae Hyun
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.127-142
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the students' problem solving ability according to numeric expression and the semantic types of addition and subtraction word problems. For this, a research was to analyze the addition and subtraction calculation ability, word problem solving ability of the selected $2^{nd}$ grade(118) and 3rd grade(109) students. We got the conclusion as follows: When the students took the survey to assess their ability to solve the numerical expression and the word problems, the correct answer rates of the result unknown problems was larger than those of the change unknown problems or the start unknown problems. the correct answer rates of the change add-into situation was larger than those of the part-part-whole situation in the result unknown addition word problems: they often presented in text books. And, in the cases of the result unknown subtraction word problems that often presented in text books, the correct answer rates of the change take-away situation was the largest. It seemed probably because the students frequently experienced similar situations in the textbooks. We know that the formal calculation ability of the students was a precondition for successful word problem solving, but that it was not a sufficient condition for that.

Gifted Middle School Students' Covariational Reasoning Emerging through the Process of Algebra Word Problem Solving (대수 문장제의 해결에서 드러나는 중등 영재 학생간의 공변 추론 수준 비교 및 분석)

  • Ma, Minyoung;Shin, Jaehong
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.43-59
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this qualitative case study is to investigate differences among two gifted middle school students emerging through the process of algebra word problem solving from the covariational perspective. We collected the data from four middle school students participating in the mentorship program for gifted students of mathematics and found out differences between Junghee and Donghee in solving problems involving varying rates of change. This study focuses on their actions to solve and to generalize the problems situations involving constant and varying rates of change. The results indicate that their covariational reasoning played a significant role in their algebra word problem solving.

Exemplary Teachers' Teaching Strategies for Teaching Word Problems (숙련된 교사의 문장제 문제해결 지도 전략 - 미국 교사들을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Kwang-Ho;Shin, Hyun-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.433-452
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    • 2009
  • This study investigated the teaching strategies of two exemplary American teachers regarding word problems and their impact on students' ability to both understanding and solving word problems. The teachers commonly explained the background details of the background of the word problems. The explanation motivated the students' mathematical problem solving, helped students understand the word problems clearly, and helped students use various solving strategies. Emphasizing communication, the teachers also provided comfortable atmosphere for students to discuss mathematical ideas with another. The teachers' continuous questions became the energy for students to plan various problem solving strategies and reflect the solutions. Also, this research suggested a complementary model for Polya's problem solving strategies.

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