Communications of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회지시리즈E:수학교육논문집)

Korean Society of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회)
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A Study on the Introduction of Numeracy as Basic Competence in the National Curriculum

국가 교육과정에서 기초 학력으로서의 수리력 도입 방안

  • Kim, Sun Hee (Department of Mathematics Education, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Lee, Seungmi (Department of Curriculum, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation)
  • Received : 2020.03.16
  • Accepted : 2020.05.07
  • Published : 2020.05.15
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Abstract

Korea, where the national curriculum is run, can change school education by specifying basic competence in the common curriculum of elementary and middle schools for students to pursue school learning and real life. The numeracy as a basic competence should not be limited to mathematics, so it needs to be specified in the national curriculum covering several subjects and guided through various subject curriculums. To this end, the study proposed concepts, components, and levels of numeracy and proposed ways to reflect them in the national curriculum and other subjects' curricula. To ensure its validity, the UK, Canada and Australia curriculum are analyzed, and the results of the survey are proposed for various education experts. This study proposed two ways to briefly state the numeracy in the national curriculum and to imply the contents related to the numeracy in each subject curriculum, and to present the concepts, components and levels of numeracy in the national curriculum in detail and to describe numeracy code in each subject curriculum. These suggestions obtained high consent from experts.

초·중학교 교육과정에서 공통 교육과정의 역할을 고려한다면, 학생들이 학교 학습과 실생활을 영위하기 위한 기초 학력을 탐색하여 명료화하는 것이 필요하다. 기초 학력은 특정 교과에의 활용을 지향하는 것이 아니라는 점에서 여러 교과를 아우르는 총론 교육과정에 명시되고 여러 교과 학습을 통해서 체계적이고 반복적으로 지도될 필요가 있다. 이와 같은 관점에서 본 연구는 영국, 캐나다, 호주 교육과정을 분석하고, 총론과 여러 교과 교육 전문가들을 대상으로 설문 조사를 실시한 결과를 바탕으로 수리력의 개념과 구성 요소 및 수리력의 수준을 제안하고 교육과정 총론과 교과 교육과정에 반영하는 방안을 제시하였다. 구체적으로 교육과정 총론에서는 수리력을 간단히 명시하고 교과 교육과정에서는 수리력 관련 내용을 암시하는 방안, 총론에서는 수리력의 개념, 구성 요소, 수준을 제시하고 교과 교육과정에서는 수리력 코드를 기술하는 방안 두 가지를 제안하였는데, 두 가지 안 모두 전문가들의 높은 동의를 얻었다.

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