• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.259-279
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• 2012

The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of the use of link sheet in pre-service mathematics teachers' mathematics learning. The study was conducted in Calculus course during 1 semester with 25 pre-service mathematics teachers. According to the results of questionnaires and focused group interviews, the use of the link sheet helped students to develop deeper understandings of mathematical concepts and mathematical communication ability. In addition, the use of the link sheet encouraged students to realize the value of the mathematics and it also played a central role in creating active and self-directed learning atmosphere.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.201-221
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• 2008

This study discusses how the humanity mathematics education can be realized in practice. The essence of mathematical concept is gradually disclosed revealing the ambiguities in the concept currently accepted and clarifying them. Historical development of mathematical concepts has progressed as such, exemplified with the group-theoretical thought and continuous function. In learning of mathematical concepts, thus, students have to recognize, reveal and clarify the ambiguities that intuitive and context-dependent definitions in school mathematics have. We present the process of improvement of definitions of a tangent and a polygon in school mathematics as examples. In the process, students may recognize the limitations of their thoughts and reform them with feelings of humility and satisfaction. Therefore this learning process would contribute to cultivating students' minds as the humanity mathematics education pursues.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.3 s.20
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• pp.81-94
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• 2004

수학적 창의성의 개념을 과정적 정의로서 창의적 문제해결력으로 규정하여 수학적 영재의 판별을 문제 발견의 창의성과 문제해결의 창의성으로 나누고 각각에 대한 판별검사 도구에 대하여 논의하였다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.19 no.1 s.21
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• pp.57-68
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• 2005

무한, 극한, 연속, 미분가능과 같은 중요한 수학적 개념을 이해하는 것은 대학수학 교양과정의 미분적분학 수강생들에게 필수적이다. 이들 개념의 이해 수준을 부록1, 2, 3을 통해 알아보고 평가를 분석한다. 평가결과는 이해도가 낮은 학생들을 위한 새로운 교수법이 필요성을 알게 하고 수학적 기본개념의 이해를 증진시키는데 정의의 정확한 이해를 돕고 구체적인 예제를 제시하는 교수법 개발에 수학교수의 노력을 필요로 한다.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2012

Kant defines mathematical cognition as the cognition by reason from the construction of concepts. In this paper, I inquire the meaning and the characteristics of the construction of concepts based on Kant's theory on the sensibility and the understanding. To construct a concept is to exhibit or represent the object which corresponds to the concept in pure intuition apriori. The construction of a mathematical concept includes a dynamic synthesis of the pure imagination to produce a schema of a concept rather than its image. Kant's transcendental explanation on the sensibility and the understanding can be regarded as an epistemological theory that supports the necessity of arithmetic and geometry as common core in human education. And his views on mathematical cognition implies that we should pay more attention to how to have students get deeper understanding of a mathematical concept through the construction of it beyond mere abstraction from sensible experience and how to guide students to cultivate the habit of mind to refer to given figures or symbols as schemata of mathematical concepts rather than mere images of them.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.33-56
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• 2013

This is a literature study about the concept of 'Division into Equal Parts' in middle school geometry. First, we notice that the concept of the division into equal parts in middle school geometry is given in four themes, which are those of line segments, angles, arches and areas. Second, we investigate and analyse the historical backgrounds of these four kinds of divisions into equal parts. Third, the possibility of extension in terms of method and concept was researched. Through the result of this study, we suggest that it is desirable to use effective utility of history in mathematical teaching and learning in middle school.

• School Mathematics
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.409-429
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• 2012

This paper reports the process two 11th grade students went through in reinventing derivatives on their own via a context problem involving the concept of velocity. In the reinvention process, one of the students conceived a tangent line as the limit of a secant line, and then the other student explained to a peer that the slope of a tangent line was the geometric mean of derivative. The students also used technology to concentrate on essential thinking to search for mathematical concepts and help visually understand them. The purpose of this study was to provide meaningful implications to school practices by describing students' process of reinvention of derivatives. This study revealed certain characteristics of the students' reinvention process of derivatives and changes in the students' thinking process.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.349-368
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to explore ways for students to connect conceptual and procedural knowledge in mathematical modeling lessons. Accordingly, we selected the greatest common divisor among the learning contents in which elementary school students have difficulties connecting conceptual and procedural knowledge. A mathematical modeling lesson was designed and implemented to solve problems related to the greatest common divisor while connecting conceptual and procedural knowledge. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the mathematical modeling lesson had positive effects on students solving problems by connecting conceptual and procedural knowledge. In addition, through actual class application, a teaching and learning plan was derived to meaningfully connect conceptual and procedural knowledge in mathematical modeling lessons.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.9
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• pp.97-114
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• 1999

새로운 세기의 수학 교육은 직관과 조작 활동에 바탕을 둔 경험에서 수학적 형식, 관계, 개념, 원리 및 법칙 등을 이해하도록 지도되어야 한다. 즉 학생들의 내면 세계에서 적절한 경험을 통하여 시각적 ${\cdot}$ 직관적으로 수학적 개념을 재구성할 수 있도록 상황과 대상을 제공해야 한다. 이를 위하여 컴퓨터 응용 프로그램을 활용한 자기주도적 수학 개념 형성에 적합한 교수 ${\cdot}$ 학습 모델을 구안하여 보았다. 이는 수학의 필요성과 실용성 인식 및 자기주도적 문제해결력 향상을 위한 상호작용적 매체의 활용이 요구된다. 본 연구는 구성주의적 수학 교수 ${\cdot}$ 학습 이론을 근간으로 대수 ${\cdot}$ 해석 ${\cdot}$ 기하 및 스프레트시트의 상호 연계를 통하여 수학 지식을 재구성할 수 있도록 학습수행지를 제작하여 교사와 학생의 다원적 상호 학습 기회를 제공하는 데 주안점을 두고자 한다.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.9-22
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• 2005

Natural numbers have not yet been studied adequately on the aspect of its historical development in spite of its mathematical and educational importance. This article studied the historical development of natural number concept, that is, its historical meaning in the mathematical development process and influence of cultural and social element in relation with way of understanding number. From these examinations, we identified some characteristics in the history of natural number concept.