• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.203-219
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• 2010

Several studies have reported on how and what mathematically gifted students develop superior ability or creativity in geometry and algebra. However, there are lack of studies in probability area, though there are a few trials of probability education for mathematically gifted students. Moreover, less attention has paid to the strategies to develop gifted students' creativity. This study has drawn three teaching strategies for creativity development based on literature review embedding: cognitive conflict, multiple representations, and social interaction. We designed a series of tasks via reconstructing, so called Simpson's paradox to meet these strategies. The findings showed that the gifted students made Quite a bit of improvement in creativity while participating in reflective thinking and active discussion, doing internal and external connection, translating representations, and investigating basic assumption.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.237-248
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• 2010

When scenes in the real world are perceived for the purpose of computer/robot vision fields, there are great deals of texture based patterns in them. This paper introduces a texture feature representation on a coordinate system in which many different patterns can be represented with a mathematical model (Gabor function). The representation of texture features of each pattern on the coordinate system results in the high performance/competence of texture pattern classification. A decision tree algorithm is used to classify pattern data represented on the proposed coordinate system. The experimental results for the texture pattern classification show that the proposed method is better than previous researches.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.337-360
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• 2002

그래프 능력을 바탕으로 한 함수의 그래프 표현은 함수 교수 ${\cdot}$ 학습상 중요한 위치를 차지한다. 그러나 부적절한 함수 그래프 과제 교수 ${\cdot}$ 학습 방법은 학생들의 지식 구성, 이해 과정에 영향을 주면서 수학적 오류를 형성하게 하였다. 그러므로 체계적인 오류 분석을 기반으로 한 좋은 교수학적 프로그램을 통해 수학적 오류를 예견하고 학습 과정에서 그것을 잘 처치, 활용하는 것이 효과적인 함수 교수 ${\cdot}$ 학습을 위해 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 지필 환경하에서 함수 그래프 과제를 수행한 학생들에게서 일반적으로 나타나는 수학적 오류를 점검하고, 새로운 교육용 테크놀러지 환경하에서 이러한 수학적 오류가 변화되는 과정을 살펴보고자 하였다. 첫 번째 연구 문제를 위해 고등학생 119명을 대상으로 양적 연구를 실시하였으며, 함수에 대한 개념 이미지로부터의 오류가 가장 많이 나타났음을 확인할 수 있었다. 두 번째 연구문제를 위해 고등학생 2명을 대상으로 사례 연구를 실시하였는데, 그 결과 기존의 수학적 오류가 새로운 교수학적 환경하에서 변화, 극복되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.81-100
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for analyzing the solution spaces of open-ended task and to explore their usefulness and applicability based on the analysis of solution spaces constructed by students. Based on literature reviews and previous studies, researchers developed a framework for analyzing solution spaces (OMR-framework) organized into subspaces of outcome spaces, method spaces, representation spaces which could be used in structurally analyzing students' solutions of open-ended tasks. In our research, we developed open-ended tasks which had various outcomes and methods that could be solved by using the concepts of factors and multiples and assigned the tasks to 181 elementary school fifth and sixth graders. As a result of analyzing the student's solution spaces by applying the OMR-framework, it was possible to systematically analyze the characteristics of students' understanding of the concept of factors and multiples and their approach to reversible and constructive thinking. In addition to formal mathematical representations, various informal representations constructed by students were also analyzed. It was revealed that each space(outcome, method, and representation) had a unique set of characteristics, but were closely interconnected to each other in the process. In conclusion, it can be said that method of analyzing solution spaces of open-ended tasks of this study are useful for systemizing and analyzing the solution spaces and are applicable to the analysis of the solutions of open-ended tasks.

• School Mathematics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.319-343
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• 2017

In this study, we hope to reveal specialized content knowledge(SCK) and its features necessary to analyze student's errors and difficulties about the concept of irrational numbers. The instruments and interview were administered to 3 in-service mathematics teachers with various education background and teaching experiments. The results of this study are as follows. First, specialized content knowledge(SCK) were characterized by the fixation to symbolic representation like roots when they analyzed the concentration and overlooking of the representations of irrational numbers. Secondly, we observed the centralization tendency on symbolic representation and the little attention to other representations as the standard of judgment about irrational numbers. Thirdly, In-service teachers were influenced by content of students' error when they analyzed the error and difficulties of students. Lately, we confirmed that the content knowledge about the viewpoint of procept and actual infinity of irrational numbers are most important during the analyzing process.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.209-221
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• 2018

Angle concepts have a multifaceted nature such as quantitative aspects as the amount of rotation, qualitative aspects as geometric shapes, and relationship aspects made with planes or lines. This study analysed angle concepts and introduction methods of angles in elementary mathematics textbooks which have been used from the Syllabus Period to the 2015 Revised Mathematics Curriculum. First, the concepts of angles in mathematics textbooks focus through the definitions, representations, and components of angles presented in mathematics textbooks are analyzed. Secondly, how various aspects of each angle are sequenced through the tasks or activties in the introduction of lesson is looked. As a result of analysis, the methods of introducing angles in the changes of mathematics textbooks have mainly focused on learning about geometric shapes and relations of components. In the mathematics classroom, students should experience various aspects of geometric shapes, rotations, relational aspects of points, lines and surfaces, and support and link them to form a wide range of concepts.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.310-315
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 한국어 수학 문장제 문제 자동 풀이를 위한 방법을 소개한다. 수학 문장제 문제란 수학적 관계가 언어와 숫자로 주어질 때, 문제에서 요구하는 정보를 도출하는 수학 문제로, 언어 의미 분석과 수학적 관계 추출이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 이원 일차 연립 방정식을 포함한 514 문제의 영어 데이터셋을 번역해 한국어 문제를 확보하였다. 또한 한국어의 수학적 관계 표현과 언어 유형적 특성을 고려한 자질 추출을 제안하고, 템플릿 기반 Log-linear 모델이 정답 방정식을 분류하도록 학습하였다. 5겹 교차 검증을 실시한 결과, 영어 문제를 풀이한 선행 연구의 정답률 79.7% 대비 1%p 낮은 78.6%의 정답률을 보였다.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2016

Patterns are of great significance to develop algebraic thinking of elementary students. This study analyzed teaching methods of patterns in current elementary mathematics textbook series in terms of three main activities related to pattern generalization (i.e., analyzing the structure of patterns, investigating the relationship between two variables, and reasoning and representing the generalized rules). The results of this study showed that such activities to analyze the structure of patterns are not explicitly considered in the textbooks, whereas those to explore the relationship between two variables in a pattern are emphasized throughout all grade levels using function table. The activities to reason and represent the generalized rules of patterns are dealt in a way both for lower grade students to use informal representations and for upper grade students to employ formal representations with expressions or symbols. The results of this study also illustrated that patterns in the textbooks are treated rather as a separate strand than as something connected to other content strands. This paper closes with several implications to teach patterns in a way to foster early algebraic thinking of elementary school students.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.445-459
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to provide a method to help elementary school students learn ratio-related concepts effectively through visual representations. This study was conducted to identify the differences in the composition of ratio-related concepts between Korean and Singaporean textbooks, reconstruct a unit of proportional expressions and distributions by using visual representations and confirm the differences in performance between an experimental and a comparison group of 6th grade students. While the experimental group mathematics lessons is from the reconstructed textbook, the comparison group lessons is from an existing textbook that does not include any reconstructive representations. A t-test of mean was applied to determine the differences between the experimental and comparison group. Analysis revealed significant differences in the mean between the experimental group and the comparison group, and the intermediate level group showed more improvement compared to the higher and lower level groups. An implication of this study is that the application of visual representations can assist students' understanding of ratio-related concepts.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.53-74
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• 2013

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how mathematically gifted middle school students find out the necessary and sufficient condition for a certain hyperbolic line to be parallel to a given hyperbolic line in Non-Euclidean disc model (Poincar$\acute{e}$ disc model) using the Geometer's Sketchpad. We also investigated their characteristic of mathematical thinking and analyze how they express what they had observed while they did mental experiments in the Poincar$\acute{e}$ disc using computer-aided construction tools, measurement tools and inductive reasoning.