한국수학사학회지 (Journal for History of Mathematics)

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Influences of a Liberal Arts Course about Sino-Korean Mathematical Cultures on Mathematics Beliefs of Comprehensive University Students

  • YING Jia-Ming (Center for General Education and Institute of History, National Tsing Hua Univ.) ;
  • HSIEH Chia-Jui (Dept. of Mathematics and Information Education, National Taipei Univ. of Edu.) ;
  • TSAI Lin-Chieh (Dept. of Mathematics and Information Education, National Taipei Univ. of Edu.)
  • 투고 : 2025.10.14
  • 심사 : 2025.10.31
  • 발행 : 2025.10.31
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This paper aims to examine the impacts of a liberal arts course about East-Asian mathematical cultures on university students' mathematics beliefs. The course, taught at a comprehensive university in Taiwan, explored pre-modern East-Asian mathematics, with a special focus on traditional Korean mathematical culture. This study employed a survey research method, whose subjects were 46 students in a comprehensive university who took the liberal arts course about East-Asian mathematical cultures, and research tools included a questionnaire of mathematics beliefs divided into two dimensions of the "nature" and "values" of mathematics, and two rounds of students' written reflective reports. The quantitative data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, while the qualitative data were read with the content analysis method to provide interpretative evidence for quantitative results. The surveys were administered before the teaching of Japanese mathematics, so the influences shown in the results were due to Chinese and Korean mathematical cultures. Research results show that, generally speaking, for the dimension of the nature of mathematics, students had a more diversified understanding of the justification of mathematical knowledge; for the dimension of the values of mathematics, students tended to agree more on the links between mathematics and traditional cultures, humanities and social sciences, and real-world applications. The authors also provide suggestions to future studies and to the teaching practices for general liberal arts courses about mathematical cultures.

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