A Study on the Understanding of Height Concept of Figures of Sixth Grade Students of Elementary Schools

초등학교 6학년 학생들의 도형의 높이 개념 이해에 대한 연구

The purpose of the present research is to suggest implications on guidance of height concept understanding of figures by investigating concept understanding how sixth grade's elementary school students understand a height concept of figures. In order to achieve this research purpose, a height concept understanding test of figures was carried out with the target of 54 sixth grade students who already learned a height concept of plane figures and three-dimensional solid figures and thus this research analyzed characteristics and errors appeared there. When analyzing its characteristics and errors interviews with students were carried out for in-depth analysis. And as a result the following implications could be obtained. First, students felt more difficulty in measuring height in a figure that its lower base is not horizontal in questions measuring height of a plane figure. Second, there were cases that students associate a height concept of figures with experience of height experienced in daily life. Third, students were feeling difficulty in linguistically expressing a concept called height that oneself has. Expressing a concept linguistically plays an important role in understanding a concept clearly. Accordingly activities for raising this mathematical communication ability are required, Fourth, the present research can suggest implications in designing classes that students can clearly understand the height concept of figures.

본 연구에서 초등학교 6학년 학생들이 도형의 높이 개념을 이해하는 데 어떠한 특징을 보이는지 알아보기 위하여 초등학교 6학년 학생들이 평면도형(삼각형, 평행사변형, 사다리꼴), 입체도형(원뿔, 원기둥, 각기둥, 각뿔)의 높이 개념 이해에서 어떠한 특징을 보이는지를 알아보았다. 그 결과로 학생들은 평면도형의 높이 측정에서 밑변이 수형하지 않은 도형에서 어려움을 나타냈고, 일상의 높이 경험과 연관되는 오류를 보이고, 높이 개념을 언어적으로 표현하는 데에 어려움을 느끼고 있음을 알 수 있었다.