• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.58-68
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• 2013

Few colleges offer remedial basic math courses for college freshmen who have not passed math placement tests or whose scholastic aptitude test score in mathematics is low. This research is aiming for the curriculum development of basic college mathematics and its effective implementation. First, an in depth statistical analysis on the basic math courses for universities in Seoul area has been done. Second, diagnostic test and longitudinal study have been carried out for one institute. Based on these, basic concepts and areas critical for the success of Calculus course are extracted. Standards and contents for the remedial math courses are suggested.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.59-78
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• 2006

As a theoretical background for this research, the literatures which focus on the rationale of teaching and learning of connecting with mathematics and science in calculus were investigated. And teaching and learning material of connecting with mathematics and science in calculus was developed. And then, based on the case study using this material, the research questions were analyzed in depth. Students could understand mean-velocity, instant-velocity, and acceleration in the experimenting process of constant acceleration movement. Also Students could understand fundamental ideas that instant-velocity means slope of the tangent line at one point on the time-displacement graph and rate of distance change means rate of area change under a time-velocity graph.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.33-55
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• 2011

This study explores the characteristics of calculus students' and instructors' discourses on the derivative using a communicational approach to cognition. The data were collected from surveys, classroom observations, and interviews. The results show that the instructors did not explicitly address some aspects of the derivative such as the relationship between the derivative function (f'(x)) and the derivative at a point (f'(a)), and f'(x) as a function, and that students incorrectly described or used these aspects for problem solving. It is also found that both implicitness in the instructors' discourse, and students' incorrect descriptions were closely related to their use of the word, "derivative" without specifying it as "the derivative function" or "the derivative at a point." Comparison between instructors' and students' discourses suggests that explicit discussion about the derivative including exact use of terms will help students see the relationship that f'(a) is a number, a point-specific value of f'(x) that is a function, and overcome their mixed and incorrect notion "the derivative" such as the tangent line at a point.

• School Mathematics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.171-187
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• 2017

To engineering students, calculus is essential knowledges and skills as a mathematical model and give a perspective to observe phenomenon in the future industrial field. However, engineering students' calculus study tends to solve problems by only applying the mechanical calculation and mathematical results. This study aimed to make engineering students realize the importance of calculus and untypical problems, by suggesting problems that could apply the mathematical concepts and principles and even solve the actual conditions of the problems. Students conjectured the anti-derivative graphs by interpreting the given derivate problems. They showed errors in this process and the errors are contributed by their mathematics leaning styles. As a result, the task would be helpful to engineering students.

• School Mathematics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.585-611
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to understand the decision-making behavior of a mathematics teacher in science academy of Korea by applying the framework of class analysis through the theory of goal-oriented decision-making. To this end, we selected as the participant a mathematics teacher in charge of the class of basic calculus of science high school for the gifted in the metropolitan area, and observed the teacher's lesson. Based on a questionnaire derived from previous studies, we analyzed goals, orientations and resources of the teacher. Research results show that there are certain teaching routines by analyzing the behavior patterns that appear repeatedly in the teacher's lesson. Also we understand that it can be used on goals, orientations and resources of the teacher to adequately explain his teaching routine. In the present study, in particular, it was found to have a similar but partially different routines to the teaching routines shown in the study of Schoenfeld. From these findings, We can derive the implications that the theory of goal-oriented decision making can be suitably used as analytical tool for understanding the behavior of the teacher who pursue a productive interaction in mathematics lesson in Korea.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.2 s.19
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• pp.35-45
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• 2004

"2002년 학술진흥재단 대학교육과정개발연구"의 성균관대학교의 9과제 중 하나로 3분야인 "신규교과목 또는 교수학습 방법개발" 과제로 대학에서의 "수학강좌의 효과적인 교수-학습 모델 개발 연구 (선형대수학, 미적분학, 이산수학을 중심으로)" 내용과 그 부산물인 콘텐츠를 소개하고, 이를 효과적으로 이용하기 위하여 개발한 새로운 강의 환경과 교수법을 소개한다. 이어서 현재 국내외에서 활발히 연구가 시작되고 있는 "대학에서의 수학교육" 내용을 소개한 후 대학에서 개발되고 검증된 이런 교수법과 교육환경이 중등학교의 수학 교육 현장에 주는 의미에 대하여 논의한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.15
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• pp.35-41
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• 2003

수학이 자연과학의 기초 또는 기본으로 여겨지듯이, 수학에서도 기초가 되는 강좌들이 있다. 미적분학이나 집합론, 그리고 선형대수학은 그러한 강좌라고 할 수 있다. 대수학의 관점에서 볼 때, 선형대수학은 현대대수학을 이해하기 위한 기본바탕이 되고, 한편 수학 전체적으로 보더라도, 선형대수학은 다른 고등수학을 배우기 위한 필수적인 선수과목을 것이고, 그 자체로서도 많은 응용성을 지니고 있다. 뿐만 아니라 선형대수학은 중등 교육과정과도 밀접한 관련이 있으므로, 교샤양성 대학에서의 선형대수학 강좌를 통해 학생들은 교육과정상의 연계성까지 이해하여야 한다. 따라서 본 연구는 사범대학 학생들로 하여금, 선형대수학 그 자체의 순수한 측면과, 중등교육과의 긴밀한 관련성, 아울러 기하락, 미분방정식, 그리고 부호이론과 관련된 최신 정보수학의 응용적인 측면도 포함하여 선형대수학의 폭넓은 이해를 꾀하는 방안을 제시한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.1 s.18
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• pp.239-248
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 맨델브로트(Mandelbrot) 집합의 개념을 3차의 복소 다항식 z^3$+c 에 확장시켜 3차 분기집합을 정의하고, 이 집합의 2-주기 성분의 경계선 방정식과 관련 기하학적 성질을 고등학교 및 대학에서 다루는 미적분학 관점에서 분석하고자 한다. 복소수, 삼각함수, 매개함수, 함수의 극값, 미분 및 적분 등의 기초 이론을 활용하여 2-주기 성분의 경계선 방정식을 매개함수로 표시하고, 경계선의 내부 면적, 둘레 길이, 무게중심 등을 이론적으로 기술한다. 수학 소프트웨어인 매스매티카(Mathematica)를 활용하여 2-주기성분의 작도 및 기하학적 성질에 관한 수치 해석적 결과를 제시하고자 한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.1 s.18
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• pp.257-266
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• 2004

자연의 세계에서 나뭇잎, 돌기물, 구름, 해안선, 곤충의 모습 등에 내재하고 있는 아름다움은 흔히 균형성, 대칭성, 다양성 등으로부터 비롯된다. 자연 현상은 복소수를 활용하여 극좌표 표현으로 묘사되는 경우가 많다. 본 논문에서는 1989년 Temple H. Fay가 Amer. Math. Monthly 96(5)호에서 발표한 나비곡선 r= e$^{cos{\theta}}$-2cos4${\theta}$+sin$^5$($\frac{\theta}{12}$)의 기하학적 성질을 대칭 이동, 회전 이동, 수치적분, 미분, 극좌표계, 삼각함수, 지수함수 및 매개함수의 표현 등 고등학교 및 대학의 미적분학 관점에서 살펴 보고 극좌표 도형에 관한 흥미 유발과 더불어 컴퓨터 활용 방법을 제시하기로 한다. 수학전문 소프트웨어인 매스매티카를 활용하여 나비곡선의 작도 및 기하학적 성질을 분석하고자 한다.

• School Mathematics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.521-540
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• 2003

The processes of mathematics development and the results of it are always those of making a conquest of the circumscription by historical inevitability within the historical circumscription. It is in this article that I try to show this processes through the history of calculus. This article develops on the basis of the dialectical materialism. It views the change and development as the facts that take place not by individual subjective judgments but by social-historical material conditions as the first conditions. The dialectical materialism is appropriate for explaining calculus treated in full-scale during the 17th century, passing over ahistorical vacuum after Archimedes about B.C. 4th century. It is also appropriate for explaining such facts as frequent simultaneous discoveries observed in the process of the development of calculus. 1 try to show that mathematics is social-historical products, neither the development of the logically formal symbols nor the invention by subjectivity. By this, I hope to furnish philosophical bases on the discussion that mathematics teaching-learning must start from the real world.