• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.19 no.4 s.24
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• pp.621-631
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to consider how to restructure the university geometry curriculum and contents in terms of applications to theoretical computer science. We analyzed various topics from computer graphics, CAGD(computer aided geometric design) and computational geometry suitable for geometry students interested in applications. Moreover we discussed about selections of topics for several cases.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.291-310
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• 2008

This article is based on an international collaborative study that aimed to investigate mathematical preparation of prospective elementary teachers in several selected education systems in East Asia. This article reports the Korean portion of the study. A survey instrument was developed to explore not only prospective teachers' knowledge of elementary mathematics curriculum and their beliefs in their preparation and mathematics instruction but also their subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge on the topic of fraction division. A total of 291 seniors in 3 universities participated in the survey. The results reveal these prospective teachers' strengths and weaknesses with regard to their knowledge of fraction division, and suggest that content-specific pedagogical knowledge needs to be emphasized in the teacher preparation program.

• School Mathematics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.241-257
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• 2003

The goal of mathematics education in the 7-th national curriculum is focused on maximizing learning effectiveness through teaching mathematics, considering learning contents and levels appropriate to various levels of students' abilities. Thus, reduction of contents, learner-centered way of teaching, and multi-step differentiated learning are centered around the curriculum. However, in reality one of the most difficult problems mentioned by many inservice teachers is that students are not interested in school mathematics because some of them tended to learn mathematics in advance in private institutes and others felt difficult from school mathematics. Thus, alternative solutions are strongly required. When students are more interested in mathematics classes and instructional materials, as a more effective way of teaching, are appropriately used, problems mentioned above are expected to be solved. In order to solve problems, additionally, this study investigated the amount of time assigned to each area of mathematics textbooks from level 1-A to level 6-B, which are currently used in elementary school. This study also examined inservice teachers' views about how instructional materials should be used. This will be helpful on using and developing instructional materials, and it will lead to more exciting classes of mathematics. However, these teaching materials need to be carefully used regarding their relationships with pedagogical transfer, metacognitive movement, and localization.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.16
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• pp.165-173
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• 2003

수학은 추상적인 학문이다. '추상'은 몇 개 또는 무한히 많은 사물의 공통성이나 본질을 추출하여 파악하는 사고작용이다. 그리고 이 추상들이 모여 분류(유사성을 기초로 해서 우리의 경험을 함께 묶는 것)가 되고 그 다음에 이름이 붙여진다. 이것이 바로 개념(concept)이 형성되는 과정이고 수학자가 수학을 하는 과정이다. 그리고 이 개념들은 여러 가지 모양으로 결합하여 스키마(Schema)라고 부르는 개념 구조를 형성하게 되는데, 이 스키마(Schema)는 수학적 사고를 하는데 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 초등학교 교과서의 소수의 관한 내용에서 교차연결고리가 부족한 부분을 보충한 스키마식 수업 모델을 제시하여 수학의 연계성과 위계성을 강조함으로써 학생들로 하여금 수학의 구조를 파악하게 하여 수학에 대한 흥미와 필요성을 알게 하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.59-77
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• 2018

This study aims to investigate reflections of secondary pre-service mathematics teachers and their changes through practicing as assistant teacher in mathematics classrooms. For the purpose of this study, research questions are addressed on the reflections and their changes. During the 2015 Spring semester, secondary pre-service mathematics teachers took a course related to working as assistant teachers in regular mathematics lessons in a middle school. This study selected cases of two pre-service teachers. The data such as reports on their practices and final meeting report with teachers were collected during the semester. The results showed that the secondary pre-service mathematics teachers reflected teachers, students, mathematics contents, and themselves in their reports. In addition, each participant showed different contents of reflections. This difference implied that secondary pre-service mathematics teachers could have different reflections according to the types of lessons that they participated in.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.341-360
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• 2011

This paper deals with contents that Sang-Seol Lee contributed to the natural science in the 19th century Korea. Prof. Sung-Rae Park, the science historian, called Sang-Seol Lee Father of the Modern Mathematics education of Korea. Sang-Seol Lee wrote a manuscript Botany with a brush in late 19th century. Botany was transcribed from Science Primers: Botany (written by J. D. Hooker), which is translated into Chinese by Joseph Edkins in 1886. The existence of Sang-Seol Lee's book Botany was not known to Korean scientists before. In this paper, we study the contents of Botany and its original text. Also we analyze people's level of understanding Western sciences, especially botany at that time. In addition, we study authors of 16 Primers jar Western Knowledge. We study the contribution of mathematician Sang-Seol Lee to science education in the 19th century Korea.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.351-362
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• 2012

Until the 1950s, linear algebra was considered only as one of abstract and advanced mathematics subject among in graduate mathematics courses, mainly dealing with module in algebra. Since the 1960s, it has been a main subject in undergraduate mathematics education because matrices has been used all over. In Korea, it was considered as a course only for mathematics major students until 1980s. However, now it is a subject for all undergraduate students including natural science, engineering, social science since 1990s. In this paper, we investigate the early history of linear algebra and its development from a historical perspective and mathematicians who made contributions. Secondly, we explain why linear algebra became so popular in college mathematics education in the late 20th century. Contributions of Chinese and H. Grassmann will be extensively examined with many newly discovered facts.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.81-95
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• 2011

In order to raise people with mathematical power and positive attitude toward mathematics fit for the 21st century, individual students should be provided with equal learning opportunities according to their ability and level, and the need of such mathematics education is even stronger for underachievers. As textbooks were considered the optimal learning materials at each stage, this study purposed to examine changes in students' mathematical learning abilities and mathematical tendency brought by the activities of analyzing and reviewing the textbooks of the previous grades. The subjects of this study were 5 mathematics underachievers from 3 fifth grade classes at D Elementary School. They were sampled from those who were selected based on the results of diagnostic assessment and the records at the end of April and gave their consent to participation in this study. For the sampled children, their current state was surveyed first, and then the experimental classes were given twice a week and a total of 32 sessions. The children judged their mathematical abilities through reviewing the textbooks from the 1st grade to the 4th grade, and studied the textbook of each stage by themselves. After the self study, they had the textbook contents review activity that extracted 10 problems considered important per semester, and the textbook analysis activity that grouped units in each stage according to relevancy, identified similarities and differences, and examined hierarchy. From the results of this study was found that the mathematics underachiever teaching method using the textbooks of the previous grades gives mathematics underachievers confidence in their abilities, strengthens mathematical connection, and develops the habits of exploring key contents through self study.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.21 no.2 s.30
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• pp.227-270
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• 2007

We described the overall explanation about R statistical package in Jang(2007). With referring the contents of the 7th national mathematics curriculum, we suggest the plan for applications of R package on probability and statistics education in elementary, middle and high school mathematics.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.11
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• pp.145-157
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• 2001

학습자가 수학적 지식이 정말로 가치 있고 유용한 것이라는 실감을 갖게 하기 위해서는 학습자가 학습의 주체로써 능동적인 참여 기회와 환경의 제공해야 할 것이다. 그러나 지금까지의 수학 학습은 주로 교과서에 제시된 내용과 순서에만 의존하여 교사가 자신의 관점에 근거하여 학생들을 가르치기 위해 수업을 설계하고 실행하고 평가함으로 해서 이미 만들어진 수학을 전수 받아 이를 암기하고 반복 연습하는 경우가 많았다. 특히 수학학습에서 가장 기본 ${\cdot}$ 기초가 되는 알고리즘 학습의 경우 학생들이 가지고 있는 기존의 경험이나 지식에 근거하여 그들 스스로 알고리즘을 구안 ${\cdot}$ 적용해 볼 수 있는 기회를 통해 문제를 해결하는 경험이 중요하다고 보겠다. 이런 맥락에서 본고에서는 인간의 창조적 활동의 산물인 표준화된 알고리즘을 직접적으로 도입 ${\cdot}$ 적용하기에 앞서서 학습자의 수준에서 창의적으로 알고리즘을 고안 ${\cdot}$ 활용해 볼 수 있도록 하기 위해 초등학교 수학에서 알고리즘을 지도하는 방안에 대해 알아보고자 한다