• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.493-511
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• 2014

In this paper, we study the major mathematical history appeared in the elementary school mathematics textbooks. School mathematical history described in the texts reflects the axial age, and deals with mathematical transculture from the ancient Greek into Europe without the Islamic mathematics. We discuss about them through out the elementary school textbooks and give some directions for the problems.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.157-196
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• 2015

The purpose of this article is to discuss some of the most commonly repeated misconceptions on the history of mathematics described in the secondary school mathematics textbooks, and recommend that we should include mathematical transculture in the secondary school mathematics. School mathematical history described in the texts reflects the axial age, and deals with mathematical transculture from the ancient Greek into Europe excluding the ancient Egypt, Old Babylonia, and Islamic mathematics. We discuss about them through out the secondary school textbooks and give some alternatives for the historical problems.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.1 s.18
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• pp.201-210
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• 2004

학교는 인적자원 계발, 일터는 인적자원의 활용이라는 틀에서 인적자원이 범국가적 과제로 다루어지고 있다. 수학교육은 인적자원 요소 중에서 언어 능력과 함께 중요한 수리 능력을 계발하는 사회적 교육적 책임을 맡고 있다. 일상생활에서 수학이 의미 있게 사용되어지도록 수학을 교육하는 것은 학교수학의 중요한 목표 중의 하나이다. 일터와 일상생활에서 사용하는 수학은 사회 문화적 컨텍스트(sociocultural contexts)의 영향 또는 상호작용에 크게 의존한다는 공통점을 가지고 있다. 일반적으로 사회문화적 컨텍스트는 수학의 실제 사용을 크게 제한하는 작용을 한다. 본 연구는 일터수학의 성격을 조망하고 일터수학을 수학교육에서 다루는 틀을 제안한다. 특히 교육기관에서 일터로의 일반적인 학습전이의 의미를 제시한다. 일반적 학습전이를 이해하는 틀에서 수학학습의 전이 문제를 다룬다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.171-199
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• 2022

In this study, we review contents to supplement the descriptions of the history of mathematics in the 2015 mathematics textbooks and teacher guides for the elementary school level and offer our opinion on them. For this purpose, we conducted a literature review on 24 types of 2015 mathematics textbooks and teacher guides for the elementary school level. The results of this study are as follows: A total of 10 topics were found whose contents were supplemented with descriptions. They were the "Arithmetic of the Ancient Egyptians," the "A'h-mosè Papyrus in Mathematics Textbooks of the Ancient Egyptians," "The Old Akkadian Square Band in Mesopotamia," "The Relationship of the Old Babylonians in Mesopotamia with the Angle," "The Pi of the Ancient Egyptians and the Old Babylonians," "The Square Roots 2 of the Ancient Egyptians and the Old Babylonians," "The Relationship of the Islamites with the Decimal Fraction," "Two Arguments for the Roots of the Golden Ratio," "The Relationship of Archimedes with the Exhaustion Method," and "The Design of Flats." Then, their specific supplements were suggested. It is expected that this will overcome the perspective of the history of the Axial Age and acknowledge and accept the perspective evidencing the transfer of mathematical culture from Ancient Egypt and Old Babylonia to Ancient Greece and Hellenism, and then through Central Asia to Europe.