• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.115-134
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• 2017

It is necessary to understand the characteristics of each type of division problems in other to help students develop a rich understanding when they learn each type of division problems. This study focuses on a specific type of division problems; a quotitive division as finding a scale factor in enlargement context. First, this study investigated via survey how 4th-6th graders and preservice and inservice elementary teachers solved a quotitive division relating to scaling problem. And semi-structured interviews with preservice and inservice elementary teachers were conducted to explore what knowledge they brought when they tried to solve enlargement quotitive division problems. Most of participants solved the given quotitive division problem in the same way. Only a few preservice and inservice teachers interpreted it as a proportion problem and solved in a different way. From the interviews, it was found that different conceptions of context and decontextualization, and different conceptions of times (as repeated addition or as a multiplicative operator) were connected to different solutions. Finally, three issues relating to teaching enlargement quotitive division were discussed; visual representation of two solutions, conceptions connected each solution, and integrating quotitive division and proportion in math textbooks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.809-811
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• 2010

In most floating-point operations related with 3D graphic applications for mobile devices, properly approximated data calculations with reduced complexity and low power are preferable to exactly rounded floating-point operations with unnecessary preciseness with cost. Among all the sophisticated floating-point arithmetic operations, multiplication and division are the most complicated and time-consuming, and they can be transformed into addition and subtraction repectively by adopting the logarithmic conversion. In this process, the most important factor for performance is how high we can make an approximation of the logarithm conversion. In this paper, we cover the trends in studying the logarithm conversion circuit designs. We also discuss the important factor in design issues and the applicable fields in detail.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2019

In this study, prospective teachers were involved in arranging the teaching sequence of multiplication and division of fractions and decimal numbers based on their experience and knowledge of school mathematics. As a result, these activities provided an opportunity to demonstrate the prospective teachers' perception. Prospective teachers were able to learn the knowledge they needed by identifying the differences between their perceptions and curriculum. In other words, prospective teachers were able to understand the mathematical relationships inherent in the teaching sequence of multiplication and division of fractions and decimal numbers and the importance and difficulty of identifying students' prior knowledge and the effects of productive failures as teaching methods.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.251-278
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to obtain implications for mathematical education by analyzing how the multiplication and division of decimal numbers are presented in the elementary mathematics textbooks in Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Finland. Compared to the fact that students often have misconceptions about multiplication and division of decimal numbers, there have been not many comparative studies in recent elementary mathematics textbooks. For this study, we selected elementary mathematics textbooks those are widely used in Japan, Singapore, and Finland along with Korean elementary mathematics textbooks. We chose the textbooks because the students in the selected countries have scored high in international achievement studies such as TIMSS and PISA. The analysis was examined in terms of elementary mathematics curriculum related to multiplication and division of decimal numbers, introduction and content, real-life situations, use of visual models, and formalization methods of algorithms. As a result of the study, the mathematics curricula related to multiplication and division of decimal numbers includes estimation in Korea and Finland, while Japan and Singapore emphasize real-life connections more, and Finland completes the operations in secondary schools. The introduction and content are intensively provided in a short period of time or distributed in various grades and semesters. The real-life situations are presented in a simple sentence format in all countries, and the use of visual models or formalization of algorithms is linked to the operations of natural numbers in unit conversions. Suggestions were made for textbook development and teacher training programs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.3-5
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• 1999

나눗셈 알고리즘은 다른 덧셈이나 곱셈 알고리즘에 비해 복잡하고, 수행 빈도수가 적다는 이유로 그동안 고속 나눗셈의 하드웨어 연구는 활발하지 않았다. 그러나 멀티미디어의 발전 및 고성능의 그래픽 랜더링을 위한 보다 빠른 부동소수점연산기(FPU)가 필요하게 되었으며, 이에 따라서 고속의 나눗셈 연산기의 필요성이 증가하게 되었다. 특히, 전체의 수행 시간 향상을 위해서라도 고속 나눗셈 연산기의 중용성은 더욱 부각되고 있다. 그러나 고속 나눗셈 연산기는 연산 속도와 크기라는 서로 상반되는 요소를 가지고 있다. 즉, 연산 속도가 빠르면 크기는 늘어나고, 크기를 줄이면 연산 속도는 늦어지게 된다. 본 논문은 높은 자릿수(Very-High Radix) 나눗셈 알고리즘에서 영역변환상수를 구하는 방법으로 연산이 아닌 검색테이블(Look-up Table)을 이용한다. 그리고 검색테이블의 크기를 줄이는 방법으로 영역변환상수의 범위 분석 및 캐리 저장형을 이용한 검색테이블 분할 방법을 이용하였다. 전체적으로는 영역변환상수를 구하는 연산주기가 필요없게 되므로 나눗셈 연산기의 영역 크기의 변화가 적으면서 연산 속도는 빨라졌음을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.380-389
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• 2005

The Goldschmidt iterative algorithm for a floating point divide calculates it by performing a fixed number of multiplications. In this paper, a variable latency Goldschmidt's divide algorithm is proposed, that performs multiplications a variable number of times until the error becomes smaller than a given value. To calculate a floating point divide '$\frac{N}{F}$', multifly '$T=\frac{1}{F}+e_t$' to the denominator and the nominator, then it becomes ’$\frac{TN}{TF}=\frac{N_0}{F_0}$'. And the algorithm repeats the following operations: ’$R_i=(2-e_r-F_i),\;N_{i+1}=N_i{\ast}R_i,\;F_{i+1}=F_i{\ast}R_i$, i$\in${0,1,...n-1}'. The bits to the right of p fractional bits in intermediate multiplication results are truncated, and this truncation error is less than ‘$e_r=2^{-p}$'. The value of p is 29 for the single precision floating point, and 59 for the double precision floating point. Let ’$F_i=1+e_i$', there is $F_{i+1}=1-e_{i+1},\;e_{i+1}',\;where\;e_{i+1}, If '$[F_i-1]<2^{\frac{-p+3}{2}}$ is true, ’$e_{i+1}<16e_r$' is less than the smallest number which is representable by floating point number. So, ‘$N_{i+1}$ is approximate to ‘$\frac{N}{F}$'. Since the number of multiplications performed by the proposed algorithm is dependent on the input values, the average number of multiplications per an operation is derived from many reciprocal tables ($T=\frac{1}{F}+e_t$) with varying sizes. 1'he superiority of this algorithm is proved by comparing this average number with the fixed number of multiplications of the conventional algorithm. Since the proposed algorithm only performs the multiplications until the error gets smaller than a given value, it can be used to improve the performance of a divider. Also, it can be used to construct optimized approximate reciprocal tables. The results of this paper can be applied to many areas that utilize floating point numbers, such as digital signal processing, computer graphics, multimedia, scientific computing, etc

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.353-370
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• 2015

This study was conducted as a qualitative case study that explored how gifted 3rd-grade elementary school children who had learned the primary concepts of division and fraction, when they studied contents about decimal, formed the transformed primary concept and transformed schema of decimal by the learning of accurate primary concepts and connecting the concepts. That is, this study investigated how the subjects attained relational understanding of decimal based on the primary concepts of division and fraction, and how they formed a transformed primary concept based on the primary concept of decimal and carried out vertical mathematizing. According to the findings of this study, transformed primary concepts formed through the learning of accurate primary concepts, and schemas and transformed schemas built through the connection of the concepts played as crucial factors for the children's relational understanding of decimal and their vertical mathematizing.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.252-265
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• 2000

In this thesis, the analysis of data processing method and the amount of computation in the whole geometry processing is conducted step by step. Floating-point ALU design is based on the characteristics of geometry processing operation. The performance of the devised ALU fitting with the geometry processing operation is analyzed by simulation after the description of the proposed ALU and geometry processor. The ALU designed in the paper can perform three types of floating-point operation simultaneously-addition/subtraction, multiplication, division. As a result, the 23.5% of improvement is achieved by that floating-point ALU for the whole geometry processing and in the floating-point division and square root operation, there is another 23% of performance gain with adding area-performance efficient SRT divisor.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.425-439
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• 2014

The concept of a fraction as division is a core idea which serves as a axiom in the process of a extension of the natural number system to rational number system. Also, it has necessary position in elementary mathematics. Nevertheless, the timing and method of the introduction of this concept in Korean elementary math textbooks is not well established. In this thesis, I suggested a solution of a various topics which is related to this problem, that is, transforming improper fraction to mixed number, the usage of quotient as a term, explaining the algorithm of division of fraction, transforming fraction to decimal.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.835-838
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 현재 MPEG, JPEG 압축 알고리즘에서 쓰이는 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform)기반의 손실 영상 압축에 사용되는 양자화(Quantization) 처리에 필요한 나눗셈 연산기를 제안한다. 영상 데이터 처리를 위한 양자화기(Quantizer)는 DCT로부터 매 사이클마다 영상 데이터를 입력 받아 양자화 처리를 해야하며 보다 나은 영상 데이터를 위해 최종 나눗셈 결과 즉, 몫을 소수 첫째자리에서 반올림(Rounding)해야 한다. 이를 위해 반올림 동작이 추가된 Pipelined Nonrestoring Array Divider를 설계하였다. 제안된 방법의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 DCT로부터 나온 영상 데이터를 제안된 구조의 양자화기로 양자화하여 일반 양자화기에서 나온 압축된 데이터와 비교해 보았다. 또한 합성기(Synthesis)를 통하여 실제 하드웨어 크기를 분석하였다.