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The Study on the Process of Undergraduate Students' Generating Counter-Examples and Proposing True Statements

대학생의 반례 생성과 참 명제 제기 과정에 대한 연구

  • Received : 2013.08.07
  • Accepted : 2013.09.22
  • Published : 2013.11.30
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Abstract

There has been increasing interest in recent years in the pedagogical importance of counter-examples that focuses on pedagogical perspectives. But there is no research that undergraduate students' generating counter-examples and proposing the true statements. This study analyze 6 undergraduate students' response to interview tasks and the process of their generating counter-examples and proposing true statements. The results of interviews are that the more undergraduate students generate various counter-examples, the more valid they propose true statements. If undergraduate students have invalid understanding of logical implication and generate only one counter-example, they would not propose true statements that modify the given statement, preserving the antecedent. In pre-service teacher's education and school mathematics class, we need to develop materials and textbooks about counter-examples and false statements.

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