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http://dx.doi.org/10.7858/eamj.2013.026

A Comparative Study on Early Algebra between Korea and USA Textbooks -focusing to operation sense in the elementary mathematics-  

Kim, Sung Joon (Busan National Univ. of Education)
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East Asian mathematical journal / v.29, no.4, 2013 , pp. 355-392 More about this Journal
Abstract
Generally school algebra is to start with introducing variables and algebraic expressions, which have major cognitive obstacles to students in the transfer from arithmetic to algebra. But the recent studies in the teaching school algebra argue the algebraic thinking from an early algebraic point of view. We compare the Korean elementary mathematics textbooks with Americans from this perspective. First, we discuss the history of school algebra in the school curriculum. And Second, we investigate the recent studies in relation to early algebra. We clarify the goals of this study(the importance of early algebra in the elementary school) through these discussions. Next we examine closely the number sense in the arithmetic and the symbol sense in the algebra. And we conclude that the operation sense can connect these senses within early algebra using the algebraic thinking. Finally, we compare the elementary mathematics books between Korean and American according to the components of the operation sense. In this comparative study, we identify a possibility of teaching algebraic thinking in the elementary mathematics and early algebra can be introduced to the elementary mathematics textbooks from aspects of the operation sense.
Keywords
school algebra; algebraic expressions; arithmetic; algebraic thinking; early algebra; number sense; symbol sense; operation sense; elementary mathematics textbooks;
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