• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.295-306
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• 2019

Despite the popularity and convenient accessibility of puzzles, the variety of puzzles have led to a lack of research on the nature of the puzzle itself. In guiding certain skills, such as abstractness, creativity, and logic, a teacher should have the thinking skill and strategy that appear in solving puzzles. In this study, the mathematical thinking that appears in solving puzzles from the perspective of experts is identified, and the strategies and characteristics are described and classified accordingly. For this purpose, we analyzed 85 math puzzles including the well-know puzzles to the public, plus puzzles from a popular book for the gifted student. The research analysis shows that there are 6 types of mathematics puzzles in which require mathematical thinking.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.173-185
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• 2007

It is the importance of Lifelong Education that is gradually more and more increased and publicly mentioned as the population of current society is aging even very rapidly. Especially the vivid activity of human being's brain is emphasized rather than before for the protection of senile dementia as people consider the sound life worth. This paper suggests mathematical education that is applicable and suitable for the emotional and cognitive level of the aged as the way of new method. I suggest the 'silver math' that may strengthen memory, thinking power and logical power of the aged, further cause the interest through games with mathematics, finally uplift the self-perception and pride. Thus, several basic elements are proposed here in this paper, that can be the foundation for the systematic and specific research of 'silver math'.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.49-59
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• 2006

Traditional programming education lacked consideration of contents, methods and learners. In particular, the importance of programming education has been decreased in school because almost no suitable teaching has been executed for elementary school students. To solve these problems, this study proposed the use of MINDSTORMS that is a programming education tool suitable for elementary school students, and verified its effects on learners' creativity. The results of this study show that the tool is highly effective in improving students' creativity. The objectives of programming education are not only learning programming languages but also improving problem-solving ability, logical thinking and creativity. We must offer environment, in which students can control their own learning activity and solve problems by themselves. In addition, MINDSTORMS can be a very useful and suitable tool for programming education.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.79-102
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• 2012

Higher educational institutions face an increasing demand for developing a renewed set of competencies of college students who will live in the knowledge-based society. However, relatively little is known about what constitutes the core competencies that college students need to develop and how we can improve them. Nine categories of core competencies required for college graduates were drawn from the previous research and examples of core competencies developed by other institutions. They are analytic thinking skills, problem-solving skills, communicating skills, collaborative working skills, and etc. A reading guidance course for strengthening core competencies, developed based on the teaching and learning methods was adapted to students of LIS for one semester. Implications of these and related findings are discussed.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.235-241
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• 2010

This paper has been studied about algorithm teaching methods for improving the problem-solving skills and creativity in rapidly changing information society. Especially the algorithms for teaching about computer is very important. Because it is effective learning content for finding the best solution to solve a problem and improve the students' logical thinking. However, teaching algorithms can be monotonous to children on account of using only computer and languages. So It needs to consider about the cognitive structure and level of elementary school students. Therefore, this study has the purpose to acquaint students with the principle of algorithm and improve problem-solving and creativity using games, not computer.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.95-106
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• 2000

Educational programming languages help learners to easily understand and use computer system itself. They also enhance the reasoning power and the contemplative faculty of learners. However, in spite of the importance of educational programming languages in education, there has not been much research and development on them compared with general purpose programming languages. In this paper, we propose and examine a new educational programming environment TWo (Turtle World) which is designed for learners to utilize the recent information technologies. Aimed at being used as a learning and working tool for multimedia programming and processing, TWo is a web-based reflective object-oriented Hangul programming environment which provides each learner with the learning environment according to his intellectual ability to learn.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.23-30
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• 1991

The purpose of this study is to investigate the interrelationships on integrated science process skills and Piagetian cognitive modes for high school students according to the different cognitive reasoning levels. About 509 high school students were randomly selected for the samples of this study. They were identified as concrete, transitional and formal operational stage with the scores of GALT(Group Assessment of Logical Thinking) developed by Roadrangka, Yeaney and Padilla(1982), and TIPS II(Test of Integrated Process Skills) developed by Burns, Wise and Okey(1983). The result of this study were showed that about 11.8% of the samples were in the concrete operational stage and about 24.4% of the samples were in the transitional stage, while about 63.8% of them were in the formal operational stage. It was also found that the achivement scores of the science process skills increase in accordance with the cognitive reasoning levels. The value of the correlation coefficient between science process skills and cognitive reasoning abilities was 0.49, which was significant at the 0.05 level. This finding seems to support previous research that the student's cognitive reasoning abilities appeared to have influenced student's scores of the science process skills No differences to the logical reasoning ability between male and female students according to each cognitive level were found except formal operational stage.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2016

As the Programming education is organized in Elementary Education Curriculum by the 2015 Revised Curriculum, The study of teaching and learning methods are needed. In this study, we applied the Pair Programming in programming teaching and learning methods that can be applied at Elementary school level. The result of applying creative problem solving ability of the proposed teaching strategy appeared significant difference. Also it showed that a significant difference in the effectiveness of the completed programs and The Gap between Men and Women.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.230-239
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• 2001

Programming education is an important part of the ICT education field, and helps to increase the ability of analyzing, logical thinking, and solving procedural problems. Unfortunately, there is very little chance to learn computer programming nowadays. In addition, students have to install the translating program of the programming language they wish to study. In this paper, we describe the system we designed and implemented on the Internet, which can offer the setting to make programs to run on the WWW. Students can make, edit and run programs on the WWW though they did not set up the language translator program on their local computers.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.533-542
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• 2011

In this paper, we have selected traveling algorithms of Line-Tracer as the focused learning elements with the PBL-based programming instruction method. Line-Tracer traveling algorithm programming has been simulated using the Scratch EPL. Development of robot web courseware such as Line-Tracer can create an effective educational environment and also provide solutions for lack of environmental conditions, such as time or spatial factor restrictions and excessive expense issues; these are major obstacles to developing robot programming education. Finally, we analyzed the effects on growth of student's logical thinking and problem solving abilities by demonstrating the Scratch application courseware to the field of elementary education.