• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.805-816
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• 2014

In this paper, we survey the development of material implication and we present an analysis of the students' understanding of formal implication. Most of high school students consider material implication $p{\rightarrow}q$ as ${\sim}p{\vee}q$ when they represent the pattern of a collected cards as material implication $p{\rightarrow}q$. But when they collect cards in which material implication $p{\rightarrow}q$ is true, Most of high school students consider $p{\rightarrow}q$ as $p{\wedge}q$.

• School Mathematics
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.261-280
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• 2009

This study was motivated by recognizing the weakness of teaching and learning about the concepts of statements in high school mathematics curriculum. To report the reality of students' understanding about statements, this study investigated the 33 first-year undergraduate students' understanding about the concepts of statements by giving them 22 statement problems. The problems were selected based on the conceptual framework including five types of statement concepts which are considered as the key ideas for understanding mathematical reasoning and proof in college level mathematics. The analysis of the participants' responses to the statement problems found that their understanding about the concepts of prepositions are very limited and extremely based on the instrumental understanding applying an appropriate remembered rule to the solution of a preposition problem without knowing why the rule works. The results from this study will give the information for effective teaching and learning of statements in college level mathematics, and give the direction for the future reforming the unite of statements in high school mathematics curriculum as well.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.143-156
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• 2008

In this study, we divided the teaching and learning of proof into three steps in the demonstrative geometry of the middle school mathematics. And then we surveyed the student's difficulties in the teaching and learning of proof by using of questionnaire. Results of this survey suggest that students cannot only understand the meaning of proof in the teaching and learning of proof but also they cannot deduce simple mathematical reasoning as judgement for the truth of propositions. Moreover, they cannot follow the hypothesis to a conclusion of the proposition It results from the fact that students cannot understand clearly the meaning and the role of hypotheses and conclusions of propositions. So we need to focus more on teaching students about the meaning and role of hypotheses and conclusions of propositions.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.307-317
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• 2009

Formally p$\rightarrow$q means that affirming p one implicitly affirms q and that denying q one implicitly denies p. Denying p or affirming q do not lead to certain conclusions. Middle school students can recognize practical implication p$\rightarrow$q is true whenever p is false, but they don't recognize theoretical implication p$\rightarrow$q is true whenever p is false. They have not assimilated intuitively the complete structure of implication. Thus they do not distinguish naturally between the uncertain conclusion which can be drawn by affirming p and the certain rejection of p which follows from the negation of q. Also they can not recognize the uncertain conclusion which can be drawn by negation of p. There is no significant difference between practical conditional statements, formal conditional statements and conditional Inferences in advanced mathematics students. But there is a significant difference between formal conditional inferences and specific conditional inferences with statement p$\rightarrow$q is true when p is false.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.123-135
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• 2008

This study analysed the schemata which are requisite to understand and prove examples of mathematical induction, and examined students' construction of the schemata. We verified that the construction of implication-valued function schema and modus ponens schema needs function schema and proposition-valued function schema, and needs synthetic coordination for successive mathematical induction schema. Given this background, we establish $1{\sim}4$ levels for students' understanding of the mathematical induction. Further, we analysed cognitive difficulties of students who studying mathematical induction in connection with these understanding levels.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.359-374
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• 2014

Students' difficulties and errors in relation to mathematical proofs are worth while to say one of the dilemmas in mathematics education. The potential elements of their difficulty are scattered over the process of proving in geometry as well as algebra. This study aims to investigate whether middle school students understand the context of algebraic proof including literal expressions. We applied 24 third-grade middle school students a test item which shows a proof including a literal expression and missing the conclusion. Over the half of them responded wrong answers based on only the literal expression without considering its context. Three of them were interviewed individually to show their thinking. As a result, we could find some characteristics of their thinking including the perspective on proof as checking the validity of algebraic expression and the gap between proving and understanding of proof etc. From these, we also discussed about several didactical implications.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.379-398
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• 2011

In learning environment at mathematics education, prove and refute are essential abilities to demonstrate whether and why a statement is true or false. Learning proofs and counter examples within the domain of limit of sequence is important because preservice teacher encounter limit of sequence in many mathematics courses. Recently, a number of studies have showed evidence that pre service and students have problem with mathematical proofs but many research studies have focused on abilities to produce proofs and counter examples in domain of limit of sequence. The aim of this study is to contribute to research on preservice teachers' productions of proofs and counter examples, as participants showed difficulty in writing these proposition. More importantly, the analysis provides insight and understanding into the design of curriculum and instruction that may improve preservice teachers' learning in mathematics courses.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.2 s.19
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• pp.109-124
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• 2004

대학수학에서 수학적귀납법의 원리를 소개하고 풍부한 예를 통해 이해를 돕는다. 특별히 교양수학을 수강하는 1학년 학생 수준에 맞게 매스매티카 프로그램을 이용하여 구체적인 예를 갖고 한단계 한단계 접근하여 수학적귀납법의 증명을 연습할 기회를 준다. 증명을 단계적으로 하는 것을 연습하여 학생들은 논리적인 사고능력을 개발하고 새로운 명제를 발견할 수 있는 기회를 맞보게 한다. 물론, 증명 연습은 1학년 신입생에게는 쉽지 않으나 여러 명제에 대해 연습을 하는 것은 수학적, 논리적 사고 능력을 개발하고 증명문제에 대한 인식을 바꾸는데 매우 중요한 역할을 할 것이다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.513-528
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• 2014

This study is intended to examine 36 in-service secondary school mathematics teachers' conceptions of proof in the context of mathematics and mathematics education. The results suggest that almost teachers recognize the role as justification well but have the insufficient conceptions about another various roles of proof in mathematics. The results further suggest that many of teachers have vague concept-images in relation with the requirement of proof and recognize the insufficiency about the actual teaching of proof. Based on the results, implications for revision of mathematics curriculum and mathematics teacher education are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.17-28
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• 2008

이 논문은 중학교 기하 영역의 수업에 대한 학생들의 성취도가 낮은 것을 관찰하고, 그에 대한 고민으로 교육과정을 분석하고, 수학교육의 질적 접근을 위한 교수 실험을 통해 실제 중학교 과정에서 운용되는 논증기하 교육의 문제점과 그 대안을 탐색하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 교사가 반드시 갖춰야 할 지식으로 Shulman(1986)이 제시한 교과 내용 지식과 교수학적 내용 지식, 그리고 교육과정 관련 지식을 받아들였으며, 중학교 기하 영역에서 이런 지식을 갖추기 위해 교사가 폭넓은 고민을 하여 수업의 개선점을 찾는 과정을 보여주고 있다. 연구를 통해서 학생들에게 명제를 지도할 때 주의할 점과 학습자에게 증명을 하도록 제시하는 방법상의 문제점, 그리고 이등변삼각형의 지도에서의 그 증명이 갖는 의미를 잘 이해하여 학생들에 증명 학습에 진정한 도움이 될 수 있는 방향을 탐색하였다. 그리고 절차만을 학습시키는 현행 작도 수업을 개선하기 위한 여러 시도와 등변사다리꼴의 학습에서와 같이 학생들이 수학 용어를 되돌아보는 수업이 필요성을 탐색하여, 많은 교수 실험을 통한 교육과정의 바람직한 개정을 제안하였다.