• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.427-451
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• 2018

This study aims to develop a family math program that can be experienced by the families in accordance with the 2nd Mathematics Education Comprehensive Plan and to spread the positive attitude and perception of mathematics to the people by applying the family math program for the family units. And this study aims to suggest some concrete ways to develop and apply family math sympathy programs. For this purpose, we developed over 24 activities for math tour, mathematical games, math activities, my home math, historical math, and e-world mathematics, which can be enjoyed by infants and students in the levels of elementary school and secondary school. And we applied these programs to 175 families eight times and surveyed them using a questionnaire. Based on the results, some implications related to the development and application of a family math sympathy program to disseminate a positive culture of mathematics were derived.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.17
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• pp.97-114
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• 2003

일선 교육 현장에서 영재를 지도함에 있어서 해결해야 할 당면 과제는 판별 도구와 학습 프로그램의 개발이다. 영재를 위한 수학 프로그램을 문제 해결형, 수학 탐구형, 과제 해결형의 3가지로 분류할 경우, 퍼즐은 문제 해결형과 수학 탐구형 프로그램의 특성을 공통적으로 갖고 있는 유형으로 수학적 지식의 통합과 연결성. 그리고 창의적 문제 해결력 신장 및 수학적 원리 ${\cdot}$ 법칙을 체험적으로 만들 수 있는 기회를 제공한다는 점에서 매우 가치있는 프로그램이다. 특히 조작퍼즐은 기존의 대수적 표현 체계로 학습하기가 힘든 관찰력이나 공간에 대한 인식과 표현력 친 공간 추론력을 기르는 데 유용하며, 게임적인 요소가 포함된 퍼즐은 지필에 의존해 왔던 수학학습에 대한 부정적인 인식을 해소하는 데 크게 기여할 것이다. 본 고에서는 수학 퍼즐의 종류 및 특성과 교육적 가치에 대해서 개괄적으로 살펴보고, 실제 프로그램 작성을 위한 정보를 제공과 영재들의 공감 감각을 기르기 위한 프로그램의 원을 이용한 수학 퍼즐의 개요를 제시한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.11
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• pp.251-258
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• 2001

인간의 내면에서 일어나는 여러 가지 변화들을 인간의 지식으로써 표현하는 것이 여러 언어적인 표현이다. 그러나 인간이 무엇을 알고 있는가에 대하여, 표현하기란 그 누구도 결코 불가능한 것일 수도 있고 그렇지 않을 수도 있다. 그리고 인간의 지식을 표현하는 언어로서 자문자답한다고 하더라도 그 결과는 역시 알 수 없는 미궁으로 빠지게 됨을 그 누구나 공감하게 된다. 그렇다고 한다면 수를 보는 시각과 인류 문명에 대한 시각, 그리고 인간사고에 대해서도 이제 새롭게 볼 수 있는 시각이 요구되고 있다. 새로운 시각으로 수의 성질을 크게 존재 ${\cdot}$ 법칙 ${\cdot}$ 구조와 질서 ${\cdot}$ 힘 ${\cdot}$ 양과 질 ${\cdot}$ 통일로 분류하여 알아보았다. 다른 한편으로는 개인의 수 개념 형성에 초점을 둔 Piaget이론을 소개하고 있다 그리고 경험주의 선구자인 Dewey의 수 개념을 소개하고 있다. 역사와 수, 인체와 수에서는 동이와 수리사상이 인체와 관련된다는 사실은 동 ${\cdot}$ 서양을 막론하고 확인되고 있다. 인체와 수에 대한 것을 동양인 중국 문화권에서 일(一)부터 십(十)까지의 기호를 인체와 연결시켜 소개하였다. 수의 본질을 알고 이해하는 것이 곧 자연현상의 이해이며 그 자연의 일부인 인간을 이해하고 동시에 역사를 이해하는 기본이라 아니할 수 없을 것이다. 따라서 수를 보는 시각이 달라지지 않으면 수학을 기피하는 현상은 계속될 것이다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.235-256
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the experience of pre-service mathematics teachers who attended at a university course combined with teaching practicum based on design thinking process to identify the change of their awareness of its activities. For the research, 8 pre-service mathematics teachers participated in a mathematics major course, consisting of 5 phases of design thinking formed by Stanford d.school. In the end of the course, qualitative data were collected through individual and focus group interviews and the course activities. By data analysis, the results of this study were as follows. Firstly, the participants' perspectives of design thinking activities were changed from the difficulty and ambiguity of its activity in the beginning of the process to positiveness with competence of solving authentic problem in terms of teaching practicum over time. Secondly, the participating pre-service teachers emphasized that design thinking activities helped them prepare well teaching practicum and raise understanding of students they met in the school fields. Thirdly, some research participants went through the difficulty in utilizing their products drawn from 4th phase (prototyping) of design thinking process depending on the acceptance of their guidance teachers. Fourthly, the research participants also pointed out that the design thinking was a significant activity in that they learned how to understand and communicate with their students and how to collaborate with team members and it gave an insight about the preparation for a class. Through these results, this study identified the possibility of using the design thinking process for pre-service mathematics teachers' teaching practicum. In addition, the research put forward some implications for better use of design thinking in teacher education.

• School Mathematics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.245-266
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• 2011

In this study, we surveyed on the 3rd and 4th grade teachers' perception and teaching practices towards open-ended question in the elementary mathematics textbook in the revised 7th curriculum. According to the result, teachers understood the purpose of open-ended question in general, but they recognized some problems in terms of open-ended question itself, difficulties found when they dealt with open-ended question in their classes, teacher's guide and teacher training. This research suggests ways of improvement of open-ended question on the basis of the survey results.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.93-117
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• 2019

Considering precedent studies in which research subjects are mainly confined to secondary school students or higher grade students of elementary schools, we can notice that there has been implicit agreement that instruction of mathematical modeling is quite difficult to lower grade students of elementary schools. Compared to this tendency, this study aims to examine the possibility of instruction of mathematical modeling for all of school ages, and more specifically, the applicability of mathematical modeling tasks to lower graders. To do this, we developed a mathematical modeling task proper to cognitive characteristics of lower graders and applied this task to the second graders. Based on the research results by lesson observation and the teacher's reflection, some didactical suggestions were induced for teaching the lower grade elementary school students mathematical modeling.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.255-279
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• 2015

Educating for character was emphasized in 2009 reformed Korea national mathematics curriculum. Thus, in this study we basically conducted to realize the character education. This study aimed to develop the teaching and learning materials for character education in middle school. For the purpose of this study, the following study was carried out. First, we investigated the concept of character education. Second, based on this, we extracted the three factor(altruism, rationality, course orientation) for character education in mathematics teaching and learning. Third, we developed five teaching and learning models for character education. The five kinds of models are 'Respect model', 'Self-directed model', 'Cooperation-centered model', 'Self-interest model, 'Story sympathy model'. Finally, We have developed a teaching and learning materials in accordance with the models. And, we applied to the classroom and confirmed its effectiveness.

• School Mathematics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.677-690
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• 2014

The main goals of learning geometry include developing spatial ability and concepts on geometric objects based on understanding the attributes and relationships of them. While the instructions on geometric objects follow the concept development models, the ones on spatial ability are designed from the perspective of geometric transformation. However, there is a need for instructional materials to emphasizing the relationships among geometric concepts. This study hypothesizes that spatial ability stems from the intuitive understanding of geometric objects and the relational understanding on concepts, and it considers the isoperimetric problems as instructional materials to foster spatial ability.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.159-181
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to explore secondary mathematics teachers' perceptions on Artificial Intelligence (AI). For this purpose, we conducted three focus group interviews with 18 secondary in-service mathematics teachers and analyzed their perceptions on AI for math and math for AI. The secondary in-service mathematics teachers perceive that AI allows to implement different types of mathematics instruction but has limitations in exploring students' mathematical thinking and having emotional interactions with students. They also perceive that AI makes it easy to develop assessment items for teachers but teachers' interventions are needed for grading essay-type assessment items. Lastly, the secondary in-service mathematics teachers agree the rationale of adopting the subject ＜Artificial Intelligence Mathematics＞ and its needs for students, but they perceive that they are not well prepared yet to teach the subject and do not have sufficient resources for teaching the subject and assessing students' understanding about the subject. The findings provide implications and insights for developing individualized AI learning tools for students in the secondary level, providing AI assessment tools for teachers, and offering professional development programs for teachers to increase their understanding about the subject.

• School Mathematics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.581-598
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• 2011

Given the growing agreement that algebra should be taught in the early stage of the curriculum, considerable studies have been conducted with regard to early algebra in the elementary school. However, there has been lack of research on how to organize mathematic lessons to develop of algebraic reasoning ability of the elementary school students. This research attempted to gain specific and practical information on effective algebraic teaching and learning in the elementary school. An exploratory qualitative case study was conducted to the fourth graders. This paper focused on the associative law of the multiplication. This paper showed what kinds of activities a teacher may organize following three steps: (a) focus on the properties of numbers and operations in specific situations, (b) discovery of the properties of numbers and operations with many examples, and (c) generalization of the properties of numbers and operations in arbitrary situations. Given the steps, this paper included an analysis on how the students developed their algebraic reasoning. This study provides implications on the important factors that lead to the development of algebraic reasoning ability for elementary students.