• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.39-69
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• 2004

This paper investigates the teaching and learning of Linear function relating functional contexts and suggests the improved methods of representation-shift through this analysis. The methods emphasize the link between students' preacquired knowledge of mathematical representations and the way of using those. This methods are explanatory teaching, teaching and teaming based on modelling perspectives or tasks (interpretation, prediction, translation and scaling). We categorize the 8th grade middle school students' errors on the linear function relating real contexts and make a comparative study of the error-remedial effects and the teaching and teaming methods. We present the results of a study in which representation-shift methods based on modelling perspectives and tasks are more effective in terms of flexible connection of representations and error remediation. Also, We describe how students used modelling perspective-taking to explain and justify their conceptual models, to assess the quality of their models and to make connection to other mathematical representation during the problem solving focusing on the students' self-diagnosis.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.827-842
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• 2010

In this paper, actual didactical transposition and dramatization of designing patterns presented in 4th grade mathematics curriculum is critically reviewed. Patterns in designing patterns are not wallpaper patterns generally. The method of designing new patterns using unit given pattern are not the same as the method of designing wallpaper patterns. In the viewpoint of not designing wallpaper patterns, the context of designing new patterns using unit given pattern is said to be putting transparent stickers. In this paper, on the premise of this characteristics, the shape of unit given pattern, the method of designing new patterns using unit given pattern, and the rule of putting unit given patterns continually are critically discussed. The shape of unit given pattern have to be square actually. In designing new patterns using unit given pattern, if the regularities of designing new patterns can be presented, any regularity is fine. Even though the relationship between new patterns and wallpapers designed by using unit given pattern is not clear, in that these two patterns can not be unrelated, designing new patterns using unit given pattern could be an example of wrong elementarization(Freudenthal, 1973).

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.221-237
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• 2004

This research analyzed mathematical discourse of the students in an RME-based differential equations course at a university in order to investigate the social transformation of the students' conceptual model of differential equations. The analysis focused on the change in the students' use of conceptual metaphor for differential equations and pedagogical factors promoting the change. The analysis shows that discrete and quantitative conceptual model was prevalent in the beginning of the semester However, continuous and qualitative conceptual model emerged through the negotiation of mathematical meaning based on the inquiry of context problems. The participation in the project class has a positive impact on the extension of the students' conceptual model of differential equations and increases the fluency of the students' problem solving in differential equations. Moreover, this paper provides a discussion to identify the pedagogical factors Involved with the transformation of the students' conceptual model. The discussion highlights the sociocultural aspect of teaching and learning of mathematics and provides implications to improve teaching of mathematics in school.

• School Mathematics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.353-367
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• 2013

A mathematics pre-service teacher T analyzed American mathematics textbooks and developed his teaching material for instruction. This study analyzed his thinking processes and results in the view of semiotics. If we regard the textbook as a sign and the unitary conversion that students should learn as an object of the sign, the interpretant of the sign is the pre-service teacher's analysis, which is conducted at the aspects of a subject matter knowledge and student understanding. T interpreted the textbook versatilely in terms of his knowledges and experiences. He developed his teaching materials as diagrams, did the diagrammatic thinking and became to have the hypostatic abstraction. This study is significant because it used semiotics for explaining T's thinking process.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.569-585
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• 2015

Many mathematics teachers in characterization high schools have been troubled to teach students because most of the students have weak interests in mathematics and they are also lack of preliminary mathematical knowledges. Currently many of mathematics teachers in such schools teach students using worksheets owing to the situation that proper textbooks for the students are not available. In this study, we referred to Chevallard's didactic transposition theory based on Brousseau's theory of didactical situations for mathematical teaching and learning. Our lessons utilizing worksheets necessarily entail encouragement of students' self-directed activities, active interactions, and checking the degree of accomplishment of the goal for each class. Through this study, we recognized that the elaborate worksheets considering students' level, follow-up auxiliary materials that help students learn new mathematical notions through simple repetition if necessary, continuous interactions in class, and students' mathematical activities in realistic situations were all very important factors for effective mathematical teaching and learning.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.37-48
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• 2004

In this article we study on a mathematics(geometry) textbook which is written for the purpose of considering student's individual difference by famous russian author V. A. Gusev. We analyze text and exercise of the experimental textbook, form and extract some didactical ideas that help us to design individualized mathematics classroom activities with students.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.259-275
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• 2019

The researches on the didactic transposition in mathematics education have been conducted almost for 35 years in Korea. Those studies have been quite usually interested in the extreme phenomena such as Topaze Effect, Meta-Cognitive Shift, etc. However, the understanding on the meaning and roles of contextualization and decontextualization in the theory of didactic transposition is needed theoretically in mathematics education and also practically in school mathematics. In particular, for the purpose of managing the efficient instruction on the class, the proper and plentiful role and application of the contextualization is very important in the aspect of the teacher as well as the learner respectively. By this reason, this study investigates the meaning and role of reflection based on the concept of contextualization.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.625-642
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• 2009

In the school mathematics the concept of tangent is introduced in several steps in suitable contexts. Students are required to reflect and revise their concepts of tangent in order to apply the improved concept to wider range of contexts. In this paper we consider the tangent as the optimal linear approximation to a curve at a given point and make three discussions on pedagogical aspects of it. First, it provides a method of finding roots of real numbers which can be used as an application of tangent. This may help students improve their affective variables such as interest, attitude, motivation about the learning of tangent. Second, this concept reflects the modern point of view of tangent, the linear approximation of nonlinear problems. Third, it gives precise meaning of two tangent lines appearing two sides of a cusp point of a curve.

• School Mathematics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.369-387
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• 2013

This research intends to give a practice of mathematics lesson-critique and some perspectives on a mathematics lesson in the elementary school level. We carried out a mathematics lesson-critique on a lesson chosen as a good lesson by a local educational district in Korea. The main themes of mathematics lesson-critique were the reconstruction of lesson models, the pursuit of relational understanding, the activation of mathematical communication, and the didactical transformation by a in-service teacher. Meanwhile we confirmed that we need to discuss the properness and adequateness of contents about division of natural numbers given in the elementary mathematics textbook and teachers' guide according to the revised 2007 mathematics curriculum.

• School Mathematics
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.353-373
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• 2005

The purpose of this paper is to analysis the basic network problem which can be applied to the mathematically gifted students in elementary school. Mainly, we discuss didactic transpositions of the double counting principle, the game of sprouts, Eulerian graph problem, and the minimum connector problem. Here the double counting principle is related to the handshaking lemma; in any graph, the sum of all the vertex-degree is equal to the number of edges. The selection of these subjects are based on the viewpoint; to familiar to graph theory, to raise algorithmic thinking, to apply to the real-world problem. The theoretical background of didactic transpositions of these subjects are based on the Polya's mathematical heuristics and Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics; quasi-empirical, proofs and refutations as a logic of mathematical discovery.