A Study on Teachers' Mathematical Beliefs and Constructivism

교사의 수학관과 구성주의

Teachers beliefs for the mathematics can have a powerful impact on how children go about learning mathematics, and theirs mathematical beliefs and abilities. In this study, \circled1 to divided teacher's mathematical beliefs into three - absolutism, progressive absolutism, constructivism - and to search into a theoretical characteristic, \circled2 to analyze and criticize the problems of the behaviorism and to investigate a point of basic view of the constructivism on mathematics education, \circled3 to suggest teacher's a role in mathematics learning be based on the constructivism perspective .