• School Mathematics
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.409-429
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• 2012

This paper reports the process two 11th grade students went through in reinventing derivatives on their own via a context problem involving the concept of velocity. In the reinvention process, one of the students conceived a tangent line as the limit of a secant line, and then the other student explained to a peer that the slope of a tangent line was the geometric mean of derivative. The students also used technology to concentrate on essential thinking to search for mathematical concepts and help visually understand them. The purpose of this study was to provide meaningful implications to school practices by describing students' process of reinvention of derivatives. This study revealed certain characteristics of the students' reinvention process of derivatives and changes in the students' thinking process.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.499-521
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• 2013

This paper analyzed the relationship between middle school students' belief about understanding with regard to mathematical concepts, procedures, and applications of the procedures. In order to gain our purpose, the academic achievement results of midterm examination of 139 middle school students and the surveys about their beliefs about understanding, mathematical concepts, and mathematical procedures were collected. And the cross analysis and the frequency analysis of SPSS were conducted. The research results showed that students' belief about understanding are irrelevant to their academic achievements. And the percentage of the students who believe that they understand was almost the same with the percentage of the students who understand the procedures. But there were differences between the percentage of the students who believe that they understand and the percentage of the students who understand the concepts. Through these, it is conformed. Students' belief about understanding does not mean they understand mathematical concepts. They just can solve mathematical problems through mechanical procedures.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.519-538
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• 2013

The purpose of this study, for each section of high school mathematics I help to verify the utillization of instructional class in the formation of students' academic achievement and mathematical beliefs. For this purpose we construct an experimental class and then analyse the students' change in those aspects after applying concept learning hand-out and colleage feedback on their works those students are in the experimental class. As a result of the experiment, we find that concept learning hand-out activity and colleague feedback made some significant changes on the students achievement in mathematics and mathematical beliefs. Therefore, in this study I want to solve the concrete problems are as follows. First, utilizing the concepts of mathematics tutoring lessons to improve students' academic achievement is it effective? Second, utilizing the concepts of mathematics tutoring classes does have a positive impact on students' mathematical beliefs? Third, utilizing the concepts of mathematics tutoring lessons for students what is the reaction?

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.117-133
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• 2013

Mathematical misconception is one of the big obstacles of the underachieving students to learn mathematics correctly. This study aims to develop the instruction materials for secondary school students who are underachieving in mathematics to reduce the occurrence of the misconception and to help them to build the correct concept in the mathematical learning. Before developing the material, we tried to collect the misconception cases occurring in common mathematics lesson. This materials tries to provide key educational contents for mathematics teachers who is responsible for teaching underachieving student and help them to creative interesting ideas for lessons. The materials could be used not only as an teaching materials for underachieving students or students with the misconceptions, but also could be used as training materials for mathematics teachers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.96-98
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• 1998

객체와 객체, 객체와 환경(공간 객체) 사이의 상호작용을 Field 라는 개념을 도입하여 개념적으로 장 이론이라는 방법론으로 객체들간의 상호작용을 해석하였다. 구체적으로 환경은 공간에 대한 수학적 개념으로 정의하고 객체와 환경사이의 상호작용은 해석하였다. 구체적으로 환경은 공간에 대한 수학적 개념으로 정의하고 객체와 환경사이의 상호작용은 일련의 상호 의존적 사실들로 표현하였다. 따라서 공간에 대한 수학적 개념과 힘의 역동 개념을 동원해서 객체와 환경이 주어진 상황에서 나타나는 구체적인 행동을 기술한다. Vector, Algebra, Topology 등과 같은 물리학적 및 수학적 개념을 도입하여 객체 상호작용을 해석하기 위한 과학적 이론 시스템 개발에 활용할 가능성을 제시하였다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.15
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• pp.161-166
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• 2003

본 연구는 학습 구조차트 구성을 통하여 고등학교 수학의 학습내용을 구조적 ${\cdot}$ 체계적으로 조직화시켜 학생들로 하여금 학습 내용의 효과적인 이해와 상호 관련성을 촉진시키고 학습 내용의 조직화 및 구조화 활동이 고등학생들의 학업에 미치는 영향을 조사하는데 그 목적이 있다. 본 연구에 따르면 수학 학업성취도가 상인 학생은 문제풀이시 머릿속에서 차트를 그리게 되고 여러 가지 개념을 나열하여 조작할 수 있는 능력이 생겼으며 문제 유형에 맞춘 학습 보다는 어떤 개념들이 문제풀이에 사용되었으며 이러한 개념들이 어떻게 나열되는지에 대한 학습으로 관심이 전환되었다. 수학학업 성취도가 하인 학생들은 학습 구조차트의 구성에만 만족하는 편이며 선행지식의 부족으로 복합적인 개념의 문제풀이에 있어서는 여전히 어려움을 경험하고 있었다. 성적이 낮은 학생일수록 개념에 대한 구조화와 조직화에 대한 어려움이 많은 것으로 보여 이들 학생들에 대한 장기적인 연구가 필요하다고 본다.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.283-309
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate gifted students in elementary mathematics how they understand of situations involving multiplication and concepts of multiplication. For this purpose, first, this study analyzed the teacher's guidebooks about introducing the concept of multiplication in elementary school. Second, we analyzed multiplication problems that gifted students posed. Third, we interviewed gifted students to research how they understand the concepts of multiplication. The result of this study can be summarized as follows: First, the concept of multiplication was introduced by repeated addition and times idea in elementary school. Since the 2007 revised curriculum, it was introduced based on times idea. Second, gifted students mainly posed situations of repeated addition. Also many gifted students understand the multiplication as only repeated addition and have poor understanding about times idea and pairs set.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.14
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• pp.251-272
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• 2001

학생들은 변수의 개념을 실제 우리 실생활에서 많이 사용하고 있으면서도 실제 수학 수업에서는 상당히 어려워 한다. 변수의 교수-학습에서 수학화의 개념을 적용한 수업으로 학생들의 수학화가 이루어지는 과정, 정의적 측면의 변화와 실생활의 적용 여부에 대하여 조사하였다. 그 결과 학생들은 변수개념을 보다 쉽게 이해하고, 정의적 측면의 긍정적 변화와 실생활에서의 적용도 가능하다는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2012

Kant defines mathematical cognition as the cognition by reason from the construction of concepts. In this paper, I inquire the meaning and the characteristics of the construction of concepts based on Kant's theory on the sensibility and the understanding. To construct a concept is to exhibit or represent the object which corresponds to the concept in pure intuition apriori. The construction of a mathematical concept includes a dynamic synthesis of the pure imagination to produce a schema of a concept rather than its image. Kant's transcendental explanation on the sensibility and the understanding can be regarded as an epistemological theory that supports the necessity of arithmetic and geometry as common core in human education. And his views on mathematical cognition implies that we should pay more attention to how to have students get deeper understanding of a mathematical concept through the construction of it beyond mere abstraction from sensible experience and how to guide students to cultivate the habit of mind to refer to given figures or symbols as schemata of mathematical concepts rather than mere images of them.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.151-169
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• 2006

This study is to adjust the Theory in the Mathematics Education, apply it to learning mathematics and to analyse its effectiveness. The results of the study are summarized as follows. First, because learning mathematics is hierarchical, teachers must make and use a task analysis table classified by units. Second, development age and the retention of mathematics concepts are intimately associated with cognitive development theory. Third, learning mathematics through cognitive processes enhances a student's scholastic achievement. Fourth, students interests and self-confidence can be enhanced through the presentation of both examples and non-examples. We cannot understand the higher-order concepts of mathematics by only its definitions. The only way of understanding such concepts is to have experience through suitable examples.