• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2019

The aim of this paper is to establish certain integrals involving product of the Aleph function with exponential function and multi Gauss's hypergeometric function. Being unified and general in nature, these integrals yield a number of known and new results as special cases. For the sake of illustration, twelve corollaries are also recorded here as special case of our main results.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2008

Some of school mathematics contents that have deep mathematical meanings are regarded as obvious and their importance is frequently overlooked. We first reexamined the mathematical meaning of pi as a constant. Then we indicated the educational implications of Archimedes' calculation method of pi and finally underlined the availability of pi as a valuable research topic in school mathematics.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.385-402
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to conceptualize 'proof' school mathematics. We based on the assumption the following. (a) There are several different roles of 'proof' : verification, explanation, systematization, discovery, communication (b) Accepted criteria for the validity and rigor of a mathematical 'proof' is decided by negotiation of school mathematics community. (c) There are dynamic relations between mathematical proof and empirical theory. We need to rethink the nature of mathematical proof and give appropriate consideration to the different types of proof related to the cognitive development of the notion of proof. 'proof' in school mathematics should be conceptualized in the broader, psychological sense of justification rather than in the narrow sense of deductive, formal proof 'proof' has not been taught in elementary mathematics, traditionally, Most students have had little exposure to the ideas of proof before the geometry. However, 'proof' cannot simply be taught in a single unit. Rather, proof must be a consistent part of students' mathematical experience in all grades, in all mathematics.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.177-189
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• 2018

Recently, Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has attracted attention among various techniques for analyzing big data. Mapper algorithm, which is one of TDA techniques, is used to visualize the cluster diagram. In this study, students were clustered according to the characteristics and degree of mathematics anxiety using a mapper, and students were visualized according to mathematics anxiety. In order to do this, Mathematical Anxiety Scale (Ko & Yi, 2011) in the aspect of mathematical instability in terms of teaching - learning, ie, Nature of Mathematics, Learning Strategy, Test/Performance is used. And the number of questions that measure the anxiety of mathematics can be extracted by extracting the most relevant items among the items that measure the anxiety of mathematics.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.261-271
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• 2008

First, we have reviewed the concepts of technology as tools, artefacts, and instruments and then introduced constructivism, mathematical communication, and anthropological views on the technology as instruments. Next, this study has supported the anthropological studies considering the facts that learners develop instrumented schemes in the interactions among learners, tools, and mathematical knowledge, and has discussed the change of paradigm. Finally, we have argued that curriculum, epistemology, and relevant studies should be changed to the new paradigm, and then we have discussed that the change of paradigm should be established on the nature, the purpose, the contents, and the assessment in mathematics learning and the role of teachers.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.1131-1148
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• 2009

Algebra is one of the important subjects that not only mathematics but many science major students should know at least at the elementary level. Unfortunately abstract algebra, specially, is seen as an extremely difficult course to learn. One reason of difficulties is because of its very abstract nature, and the other is due to the lecture method that simply telling students about mathematical contents. In this paper we study about the teaching and learning abstract algebra in universities in corporation of a programming language such as ISETL. ISETL is a language whose syntax closely imitates that of mathematics. In asking students to read and write code in ISETL before they learn in class, we observe that students can much understand and construct formal statements that express a precise idea. We discuss about the classroom activities that may help students to construct and internalize mathematical ideas, and also discuss about some barriers we might overcome.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.803-822
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• 2009

Creativity is emerging as one of the key components in every areas. In mathematics education, creativity or mathematical creativity is emphasized even though the definition of the term is inconsistence among every research. The purpose of this research was to identify the nature of mathematical creativity and provide the ways of strengthening it in the mathematics classroom. For this, students' mathematical strategies and problems in the elementary mathematics textbook were analyzed. The results showed that mathematically gifted students used a limited strategies and the problems in the textbooks were too simple to stimulate students' mathematical creativity. For the enhancement of students' mathematical creativity, we need to develop mathematically rich tasks and refine teacher education programs.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.9-13
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• 1988

Mathematics education is generally to cultivate mathematical thought. Most meaningful thought is to solve a certain given situation, that is, a problem. The aim of mathematies education could be identified with the cultivation of mathematical problem-solving ability. To cultivate mathematical problem-solving ability, it is necessary to study the nature of mathematical ability and its aspects pertaining to problem-solving ability. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between problem-solving ability and classficational viewpoint of mathematical verbal problems, and bet ween the detailed abilities of problem-solving procedure and classificational viewpoint of mathematical verbal problems. With the intention of doing this work, two tests were given to the third-year students of middle school, one is problem-solving test and the other classificational viewpoint test. The results of these two tests are follow ing. 1. The detailed abilities of problem-solving procedure are correlated with each other: such as ability of understanding, execution and looking-back. 2. From the viewpoint of structure and context, students classified mathematical verbal problems. 3. The students who are proficient at problem-solving, understanding, execution, and looking-back have a tendency to classify mathematical verbal problems from a structural viewpoint, while the students who are not proficient at the above four abilities have a tendency to classify mathematical verbal problems from a contextual viewpoint. As the above results, following conclusions can be made. 1. The students have recognized at least two fundamental dimensions of structure and context when they classified mathematical verbal problems. 2. The abilities of understanding, execution, and looking- back effect problem-solving ability correlating with each other. 3. The instruction emphasizing the importance of the structure of mathematical problems could be one of the methods cultivating student's problem-solving ability.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.119-125
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• 1979

In the present paper we study a new integral transform whose kernel involves the product of two H-functions of two complex variables. Next, we establish an inversion formula for this new transform. On account of very general nature of its kernel, several other integral transforms studies earlier by many research workers viz., Bose (1952), Mukherji (1962), Nigam (1963), Rathie (1965), Singh (1969), Mittal & Goel (1973), and Gupta, Garg & Kalla (1975), follow as its particular cases.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.91-95
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• 1988

The nature of a H-set in a Hausdorff space is not well understood. In this note it is shown that if X is a countable union of nowhere dense compact sets, then X is not H-embeddable in any Hausdorff space. An example is given to show that there exists a non-Urysohn, non-H-closed space X such that each H-set of X is compact.