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Is Mathematics Teaching in East Asia Conducive to Creativity Development? - Results from the TIMSS 1999 Video Study and the Learners' Perspective Study

  • Leung Frederick K. S.;Park Kyungmee
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.9 no.3 s.23
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    • pp.203-231
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    • 2005
  • Students in East Asia have consistently out-performed their counterparts in the West in recent international studies of mathematics achievement. But some studies also show that East Asian students are more rigid in thought, and lack originality and creativity. While different theories have been proposed to account for these student performances, relatively few research studies have been done on classroom practices, potentially a major variable for explaining student performances. This paper will report on the results of two classroom studies: the TIMSS 1999 Video Study and the Learners' Perspective Study (LPS). Results the quantitative analysis of the TlMSS 1999 Video Study data show that the East Asian classrooms were dominated by teacher talk, and the mathematics content learned was abstract and unrelated to the real life. On the other hand, the characteristics of the instructional practices in Hong Kong as judged by an expert panel are that student learned relatively advanced mathematics content; the components of the lessons were more coherent, and the presentation of the lessons was more fully developed. Hong Kong students seemed to be more engaged in the mathematics lessons, and the. overall quality of the lessons was judged to be high. Results of the analysis of the LPS data also show that the classrooms in the East Asian city of Seoul were in general teacher dominated, but students were usually actively engaged in the mathematics learning. Emphasis on exploration of mathematics and practicing exercises with variation was common. It is argued that the quality teaching in the East Asian classrooms laid a firm foundation in mathematics for students, and that constitutes a necessary condition for the development of students' creativity. In order to fully develop the creativity of East Asian students, they need to be given the right environment and encouragement.

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Characteristics of Teachers' Questioning to Formulate an Effective Mathematics Discourse (효과적인 수학적 담론을 구축하기 위한 교사 질문활동의 특성)

  • Cho, Jin Woo;Park, Minsun;Lee, Kyeong-Hwa;Lee, Eun-Jung
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.193-214
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    • 2016
  • Teachers' questioning plays an important role in mathematics teaching and learning by asking students to react or to participate in mathematical discourse. Previous studies on teachers' questioning have not focused on how to questioning to formulate an effective mathematical discourse which is contributed by students because studies mostly analyzed and categorized teachers' questions according to cognitive levels of questions without consideration of context. Therefore, this study explored characteristics of teachers' questioning to formulate an effective characteristics of teachers' questioning to formulate an effective mathematical discourse in mathematics classrooms. By reviewing and analyzing mathematics discourse and studies on teachers' questioning theoretically, we presented openness, sharedness, and productivity as characteristics of teachers' questioning. Through a middle school mathematics teacher's case, we examined three characteristics were necessary to formulate an effective mathematical discourse. Based on results from theoretical analysis and case analysis, we discussed that openness, sharedness, and productivity would be useful as a framework to analyze teachers' questioning.

The Teaching of Mathematics and the Mathematics Curriculum in France (프랑스의 수학교육 및 수학교육과정)

  • 장혜원
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.401-421
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    • 2001
  • This paper describes the teaching of mathematics in France at the elementary and secondary levels. It consists of four parts: the structure of the french education system and the status of mathematics within it, the evolution of mathematics teaching in France from 1968 to nowadays, the teacher training in France, the mathematical contents in the elementary school curriculum and the mathematics curriculum in the lower secondary school. From this review, we can extract some characteristics of the teaching of mathematics in France.

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A Study on Mathematics for Elementary Teachers (part 1) A Search for the Direction for Establishing the Concept of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers (초등학교 교직수학에 관한 연구(1) - 초등학교 교직수학의 개념 정립을 위한 방향 탐색)

  • 정은실;박교식
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.405-418
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, we tried to establish the concept of 'Mathematics for Elementary Teachers(MET)'. There are 4 kinds of Mathematics for Teachers(MT). MET is one of tried to establish the concept in contradistinction to school mathematics(SM), mathematics, and Teaching Materials(TM). We suggested the outline of MET by suggesting the parts to which SM, MTs. The concept of MET is established variously according to various views. Here, we mathematics, and TM can not approach.

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