• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.569-590
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• 2023

The purpose of this case study is to compare and analyze the covariational reasoning levels of two middle school students revealed in the process of solving and generalizing algebra word problems. A class was conducted with two middle school students who had not learned quadratic equations in school mathematics. During the retrospective analysis after the class was over, a noticeable difference between the two students was revealed in solving algebra word problems, including situations where speed changes. Accordingly, this study compared and analyzed the level of covariational reasoning revealed in the process of solving or generalizing algebra word problems including situations where speed is constant or changing, based on the theoretical framework proposed by Thompson & Carlson(2017). As a result, this study confirmed that students' covariational reasoning levels may be different even if the problem-solving methods and results of algebra word problems are similar, and the similarity of problem-solving revealed in the process of solving and generalizing algebra word problems was analyzed from a covariation perspective. This study suggests that in the teaching and learning algebra word problems, rather than focusing on finding solutions by quickly converting problem situations into equations, activities of finding changing quantities and representing the relationships between them in various ways.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.21 no.2 s.75
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• pp.81-86
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• 2007

This paper presents a computer aided process planning system integrating case-based reasoning and expert system for block assembly in shipbuilding. Expert rules are extracted from the case-base where cases are represented as a set of constraint-satisfaction problems. Rules for the expert system are extracted by generalizing the constraints. In generalizing the constraints, parts are generalized as variables or as part-types. The system was developed with CLIPS, an expert system shell. As more cases are collected, more rules will be extracted and the existing rules will be updated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.459-468
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• 2009

Analysis of the uncertainty to have engineering solution of gas-dynamic and hydrodynamic problems is based on the comparison the prospective engineering solution with experimental result. In this paper, the mathematical model to estimate heat flux along gas-dynamic channel wall and the solution sequence are shown. Statistical information and generalizing experimental characteristics about gas- and hydro-dynamic channels were applied to the mathematical model. As the results, it is possible to draw a conclusion that models of the integrated approach, using the averaged statistical data of generalizing characteristics for a turbulent flow, without consideration of the turbulent mechanism (characteristic pulsations), can predict a nominal operating regime for gas-dynamic and hydrodynamic systems. The probable deviation of operating regime for newly designed the gas-dynamic channel can achieve 20% from a regime predicted on a basis 1-D or 3-D modelling irrespective of a kind of used models.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.409-429
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• 2021

This study investigated instructional methods for fractional division emphasizing algebraic thinking with sixth graders. Specifically, instructional elements for fractional division emphasizing algebraic thinking were derived from literature reviews, and the fractional division instruction was reorganized on the basis of key elements. The instructional elements were as follows: (a) exploring the relationship between a dividend and a divisor; (b) generalizing and representing solution methods; and (c) justifying solution methods. The instruction was analyzed in terms of how the key elements were implemented in the classroom. This paper focused on the fractional division instruction with problem contexts to calculate the quantity of a dividend corresponding to the divisor 1. The students in the study could explore the relationship between the two quantities that make the divisor 1 with different problem contexts: partitive division, determination of a unit rate, and inverse of multiplication. They also could generalize, represent, and justify the solution methods of dividing the dividend by the numerator of the divisor and multiplying it by the denominator. However, some students who did not explore the relationship between the two quantities and used only the algorithm of fraction division had difficulties in generalizing, representing, and justifying the solution methods. This study would provide detailed and substantive understandings in implementing the fractional division instruction emphasizing algebraic thinking and help promote the follow-up studies related to the instruction of fractional operations emphasizing algebraic thinking.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.617-622
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• 2005

In this paper, using Gauss multiplication formula, a recurrence relation for Bernoulli numbers, generalizing Namias' results, is given.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.483-489
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• 1997

The $W^\phi$-spaces generalizing the $W^p$-spaces due to Pathak and Upadhyay are investigated and the Fourier transformations on these spaces are continuous.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.1021-1031
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• 1999

In this paper we introduce matrix representations of polygroups over hyperrings and show such representations induce representations of the fundamental group over the corresponding fundamental ring. We also introduce the notion of a polygroup hyperring generalizing the notion of a group ring. We establish homo-morphisms among various polygroup hyperrings.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.26 no.5_6
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• pp.901-910
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• 2008

For some generalized N-function ${\Phi}$, some Holder type inequalities and bounded operators on spaces of type $W_M^{\Omega,\Phi}$ generalizing the $W^p$-spaces due to Pathak and Upadhyay are obtained.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.421-429
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• 2005

Generalizing the results in [7] that considers several functional equations in the spaces of the Schwartz tempered distributions and the Fourier hyperfunctions we consider Pexider type functional equations in the space of distributions.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.793-806
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• 2001

In this paper we consider the enumeration problem of permutations with partially forbidden positions, generalizing the notion of permutations with forbidden positions. .As an alternative approach to this problem, we investigate the permanent maximization problem over some classes of (0,1)-matrices which have a given number of 1's some of which lie in prescribed positions.