• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.45-61
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• 2011

The starting point of education is the ancient Greek philosophy. In this paper, we research the Hellenism culture: two famous poleis such as Sparta and Athens. Moreover, we investigate prominent philosopher Plato and Aristotle. In particular, we notice early childhood and female education through Hellenism culture. Finally, we study culture, politics and educations of the ancient Roman in order to compare those of our society.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.415-442
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• 2010

If the philosophy of the curriculum is changed when the curriculum is revised, discussion about knowledge viewpoints in the changed philosophy is needed. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze elementary mathematics textbooks(EMT) based on the perspective of constructivism knowledge as basic philosophy of the 7th curriculum and the 2007 revised curriculum and to present aim of textbooks development through the results. According to the results, the number and operation units of 1st and 2nd grades of EMT compiled according to the 7th curriculum and the 2007 revised curriculum didn't reflect the perspective of constructivism knowledge as the philosophy of the curriculum. From the analysis, EMT were not composed so as to agree the perspective of constructivism knowledge that emphasize concepts, conceptua1 principles, variety, integration.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-21
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• 2002

Teachers' teaching behavior is directly influenced by teachers' belief, and students' belief system is directly influenced by teachers' teaching behavior. There has been a question whether curriculum of teacher training university could help preservice teachers form positive belief system. The purpose of this study was to address this issue empirically. First, a questionnaire about mathematical belief was given to freshmen preservice teachers. They generally showed positive belief about mathematics to the degree that is not satisfactory and responded most positively in the sub-area of teaching mathematics from three sub-areas of mathematics itself, studying mathematics, and teaching mathematics. After studying a mathematical philosophy course, the freshmen preservice teachers were given the same questionnaire that they responded before studying the course. Belief about mathematics itself was changed very positively, and increase in the sub-area of mathematics itself was the largest. These results show that the mathematical philosophy course helped preservice teachers form positive belief system in mathematics.

• School Mathematics
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.375-389
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• 2005

Whitehead proposed that the education proceed through the rhythmic cycle on the basis of his metaphysical philosophy and educational philosophy. 'The Rhythm of Education' means that the intellectual levels of learners are elevated through the rhythmic cycles of stages of romance, precision, and generalization over and over again. As a result of these cyclic repetitions, the learners become truly free of inner prejudice. This study is to seek a method to apply Whitehead's proposition to mathematics education. I devise the curriculum constructing methods to experience Whitehead's three stages meaningfully, the teaching methods interplaying freedom and discipline rhythmically, and the teaching examples which adopt all these.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.237-252
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• 2013

The philosophy of science of Bachelard is introduced mainly with epistemological obstacles in the discussions within mathematics education. In his philosophy, epistemological obstacles are connected with the dialectical developments of science. Science progresses through generalization of concepts and theories by negating things which were recognized as obvious. These processes start with ruptures against the existing knowledge. Epistemological obstacles are failure in keeping distance with the existing knowledge when reorganization is needed. This concept means that there are the inherent difficulties in the processes of concept formation. Finally I compare the view of Bachelard on the developments of science and the 'interiorization-condensation-objectification' scheme of reflexive abstraction in mathematics education and discuss the inherent difficulties in the learning mathematics.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.143-156
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• 2004

Lakatos's mathematical philosophy implies that the mathematical knowledge is quasi-empirical and provides the context where mathematics grows and develops. So, it is educationally significant. But, it is not easy to apply Lakatos's methodology to teaching elementary mathematics, because Lakatos's logic of the mathematical discovery is based on the proofs and refutations but elementary mathematics does not contain any proof. This study is to develop the schemes that apply Lakatos's methodology to teaching elementary mathematics and to provide the teaching examples. I devised the teaching process and the curriculum development method. And I developed the teaching examples.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for History of Mathematics Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.4-4
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• 2001

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.175-190
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• 2007

In the nineteenth century was Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician, a great mathematics teacher. Although his name is well known to everybody who is interested in set theory, his major mathematical legacy would arise from his novel research in logic. In this article, we first investigate De Morgan's life briefly; we then consider his precious philosophy of mathematics education based on his students' remarks and his works. Finally, by considering his teaching style, we highlight some of the ingredients that go into making a great mathematics teacher.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.15
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• pp.293-298
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• 2003

0은 인류 문명의 발전에 가장 큰 영향을 미친 숫자이다. 그러나 0은 일반적인 숫자의 역할을 넘어 철학적인 의미를 가지고 있다. 이러한 철학적인 의미 때문에 그리스인들에게 알려져 있었지만 받아들여지지는 않았다. 수의 추상적 개념(抽象的槪念)은 구체적인 물체의 취급에서 얻어지는 것이다. 따라서 산술적인 진리인 2+1=3 과 같은 것은 구체적인 물체를 조작하는 경험에서 얻어질 수 있는 반면, 우리의 경험상 존재하지 않는 0(영)의 개념은 쉽게 발견될 수 있는 성질이 아니었던 것이다. 그러나 모든 수학적 발견 중에서 0 이란 숫자만큼 인간 지성의 일반적 진전에 공헌한 것은 없다고 해도 과언이 아니다. 초기에는 0이 산술 계산의 편리성으로 인하여 널리 보급되었으나, 그 의미를 깨닫고 난 후 미적분과 무한의 개념과도 동전의 양면과 같다는 사실을 알게 되었다. 본 논문은 수학뿐만 아니라 인류문명에 거대한 진보를 이루게 한 0의 역사를 살펴보고, 이것이 왜 인도에서 나타나게 되었는가를 살펴보았다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.625-639
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 LOGO를 개발한 Papert의 철학에 따라 아동이 자유롭게 학습할 수 있는 Microworld를 통해 수학을 새로운 관점에서 접근하고, 아동에 맞게 수학을 재구성하여 제공한다는 적극적인 교육적 배려에서 정규교육과정(교실), 특기적성, 자기 주도 학습 등 다양한 학습 환경에 가능한 컴퓨터 창의력수학 프로그램을 개발하고자 한다. 많은 관심에 비해 창의력 교육이 구체적으로 학습과 관련되어 있지 않고, 체계적인 교육과정을 따라 이루어지지 않고 있으며, 컴퓨터 교육 역시 한글 워드나 Excel과 같은 기능 위주의 학습으로 컴퓨터 학습에서 기대하는 알고리즘 학습은 소홀히 다루는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 창의력 교육과 컴퓨터 교육에 대한 문제점에 주목하여 학교 교과과정과 연계된 컴퓨터 알고리즘 학습과 수학 학습이 함께 가능한 컴퓨터를 통한 수학적 창의력 향상 프로그램을 개발하고자 한다. 이에 학교 교과과정에 연계하여 컴퓨터 알고리즘 학습과 수학적 창의력 향상에 적합한 매체로 LOGO 마이크로월드를 택하고, 이를 이용한 컴퓨터 창의력 수학 프로그램이 가지는 특징을 살펴본다. 이렇게 개발된 프로그램은 검증을 위해 봄학기 초등학교에서 실험연구가 계획되어 있다.