A Research on the Journal 'Arithmetic Education' of Japan Society of Mathematical Education - Focused on 2007 to 2011 -

일본의 학술지를 통해 본 한국초등수학교육학회지 - 최근 5년간을 중심으로 -

The purpose of this study was to investigate the typical characteristics of mathematics education of Japan. In order to achieve this goal, we focused the journal 'Arithmetic Education' from 2007 to 2011. This journal has published by the Japan Society of Mathematical Education and 6 issues each year. A total of 133 articles related with mathematics education were analyzed. The typical characteristics of Japan's research for mathematics education were as follows: The number of single author of article were 98 cases (74%), and those of two co-authors were 21 cases (16%). There are some unusual research topic for mathematics education such as 'combined class'. 'cultural pluralism' and 'mathematics learning disabled children'. The articles 'statistical methods related to educational evaluation', 'statistical analysis for educational evaluation' and 'the relationship between number and quantity on the quaternion number' are very interesting results to the readers who know the basics of statistics and algebra. We may find many researcher who majored pure mathematics in the University of Educations in Korea. So we hope that they may write the paper which combine the pure mathematics and mathematics education. The education survey conducted by the policy is actually very meaningful. If the researcher can connect these surveys to the field of education, then the readers can see a nice paper in the journal of elementary mathematics education in Korea. Finally, it is very difficult to find that counterstatement paper for the results of the other's.

이 연구의 목적은 2007년부터 2011년까지 일본수학교육학회에서 발행하는 초등수학교육에 관한 학술지 '산수교육'을 통하여 학술지의 구성, 게재된 초등수학 관련 논문의 개요를 파악하여 정통적 초등수학교육 학술지인 한국초등수학교육학회지에 시사점을 주기 위함이다.