The Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육)

Korean Society of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회)
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High-school students' understanding and use of mathematics textbooks

수학 교과서에 대한 고등학생의 인식 및 활용

  • Received : 2019.10.25
  • Accepted : 2019.11.22
  • Published : 2019.11.30
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Abstract

The study aimed to investigate what high-school students recognize mathematics textbooks and how they use textbooks in their learning mathematics in and out-of mathematics classrooms. For this purpose, we developed a set of interview questions in order to unpack what high-school students thought about mathematics textbooks and how they intended to use the textbooks for their learning mathematics. Eleven high-school students participated in the interview; the interview lasted for about an hour for each student. The data from the interviews were analyzed. The findings from the data analysis suggested as follows: a) the students seemed to consider mathematics textbooks as crucial medium for a mathematics classroom material and thus, they were likely to obliged to use the textbooks for preparing for not only tests and examination conducted regularly in schools but college entrance examination conducted nationwide; b) however, the students appeared to use the textbooks in limited ways in which they looked into the textbooks to prepare for mid-term or final exam only, not for their understanding mathematical contents as a main resource; and c) the students seemed to realize that they rarely have had an opportunity to develop mathematical thinking capabilities and understand mathematical ideas conceptually through the mathematics textbooks.

학생들이 수학 교과서에 대해서 어떻게 생각하는지 또한 학습에서 어떻게 활용하는지에 대하여 알려진 바가 거의 없다. 이 연구에서는 고등학생들이 수학 교과서를 어떻게 인식하고 활용하는지를 탐색하고자 하였다. 인터뷰 질문지를 개발하여서 고등학생 11명을 대상으로 인터뷰를 실시하였다. 그 결과로, 다음 세 가지 측면을 발견하였다. 첫째, 학생들은 교과서를 수업에서 활용하는 자료로 인식하며 대학 입학시험을 준비하는 데 중요한 교재로 사용하는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 학생들은 교과서를 학교에서 시행하는 중간 또는 기말고사 등 정기고사 시험을 대비하는 데 있어서 필수로 사용하지만, 실질적인 학습에는 매우 한정하여서 활용하는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 학생들은 교과서를 통해서 기르고자 하는 수학적 사고능력이 무엇인지에 대하여서는 거의 파악하지 못하는 것으로 나타났다.

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