• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.33-50
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• 2007

Positive attitude toward mathematics is gaining bigger recognition as an important contributing factor to mathematical ability. As a strategy for strengthening affective domain and betterment of mathematics teaching and loaming, classifying students by their causes for liking or disliking mathematics can be an effective way In this study the author tried to devise methods to classify students by their types of math disliking and investigate correlations between mathematical achievements and these math-disliking types from a sample group of 8th graders. To identify the types of reasons why 8th graders dislike mathematics, a questionnaire with 30 items was made firstly. Then by applying the 'Factor analysis' of SPSS, the 30 items were divided into five partitions. Through abstraction of each partition, five math-disliking types, 'Competences', 'Basics', 'Confidences', 'Usefulness', and 'Teachers' were defined. They are expected to help teachers for describing each student's tendency of math-disliking. Further, correlation coefficients between mathematical achievements and each of the five math-disliking type were investigated against 4 groups which were made from sample group by the discrimination of gender and two levels (high and low) of mathematical achievements in cognitive area. As results, the following facts were found. (i) The trends of correlations between cognitive achievement and the five math disliking types were different across the 4 groups at statistically meaningful degrees. (ii) Most of the male students who had math-disliking types were proved to be in the low achievement level. But for the female students, only 50% of students who had math-disliking types were in the low achievement level. (iii) Compared to male students, higher portion of female students had math-disliking types despite their high achievement in cognitive area.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.1 s.18
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• pp.183-190
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• 2004

학습부진아에 대한 정의는 여러 가지가 있지만, 일반적으로는 선수 학습 요소의 결손이나 환경요인 및 그 영향을 받은 개인의 성격이나 태도, 학습 습관 등의 요인으로 인해 수락할 수 있는 최저 학업성취 수준에 도달하지 못한 학습자를 지칭하는 용어로 쓰이고 있다. 본 연구에서는 학습부진아의 수학 기피성향 심리 검사지를 이용하여, 중학교 수학 학습부진아의 경우11개의 기피요인 중 어느 요인에서 두드러진 기피 현상을 나타내는지 그 특징에 대하여 알아보았다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.2 s.19
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• pp.505-505
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• 2004

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.2 s.19
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• pp.155-162
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• 2004

이공계 기피 현상 혹은 학생들의 전공 선택과 관련하여 수학에 대한 부정적인 견해들이 있다. 그러나 최근 고교 졸업생들의 대학 진학에 대한 자료에 의하면 다른 면을 볼 수 있다. 이와 관련된 자료를 분석하여 살펴보고 그에 따른 수학교육의 방향을 제시한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.1 s.18
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• pp.173-182
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• 2004

TIMSS-R 등 국제적 검사 결과로부터 알 수 있듯이 우리 학생들의 수학교과에 대한 정의적 영역의 성취도는 매우 낮은 실정이다. 진정한 의미의 수학적 힘은 인지적 영역과 함께 정의적 영역에 대한 의미 있는 학습을 통해서 길러진다는 사실을 생각할 때, 이는 우리 수학교육이 당면하고 있는 심각한 문제점이 아닐 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 이미 밝혀진 수학 기피요인들을 이용하여 학년이 올라감에 따라서 우리 학생들의 수학적 성향이 어떻게 변화하는지를 살펴보고 수학적 성향의 교육과 관련하여 몇 가지 제안을 하였다.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.45 no.3 s.114
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• pp.251-262
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• 2006

This study investigates 628 high school students' math dislike tendencies by their math achievement levels. The findings show that, firstly, as the sample students' math achievement level decreases, the number of dislike factors increase. Secondly, students' math dislike factors are differentiated by their math achievement levels. Math high achievers show high math disliking tendency by teacher factor. Middle achievers show high math disliking tendency by complex application and relation factors. Low achievers show high math disliking tendency by comprehension factor. Finally the math disliking factors affecting the level of math achievement are influenced by schools and grades that students' attend. While math disliking factors such as comprehension factor, teacher factor, affection factor are generally present among sample schools, exceptionally JS high school students(high achieving students) are only affected by mentality factor. In addition, mentality factor affects the second grade students only. The implications of the study argue that students' math disliking tendencies could be systematically reduced by paying attention to such dependent variables students' achievement levels, grade, school characteristics, and independent variables including teacher, application, mentality, comprehension, and affection.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.217-239
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• 2001

To lessen the ratio of under achievers is one of the most urgent task which recent school mathematics education is confronted with. To cope with this problem efficiently, math. teachers should know more specifically and concretely the causes that make the students dislike mathematics. But actually, there are too many reasons for these situations. So, in this paper, we tried to devise a tool to analyze and measure each student's math. disliking status. We proceeded this research via the following procedures. 1. Grasping the causes which make the students dislike mathematics as specifically as possible. To obtain this, we asked more than 300 of secondary school students to write down their thoughts about school mathematics. 2. Analyzing the responses, we abstracted 74 numbers of items which were supposed to be the causes for secondary school students'mathematics disliking. 3. With these items we made a test to measure students'aptitude for each item. 4. With this test paper, we tested over 800 of secondary school students. Through factor analysis and theoretical argument, we categorized the 74 items into 11 groups whose names were defined as factors of mathematics disliking. 5. For each of these 11 factors, we developed a norm which could serve as standard of comparison in measuring each student's mathematics disliking status. Using this tool teachers were able to describe each student's traits of mathematics disliking more specifically.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.1 s.18
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• pp.19-25
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• 2004

초등학교에서 고학년으로 갈수록 수학에 대한 흥미가 떨어지고 수학을 기피하는 학생들을 많이 볼 수 있다. 그러한 아동들의 대부분은 수학에 대한 어려움을 많이 호소하고 있는데 특히 비정형화된 문제들을 대할 때엔 그 현상은 더욱 심각하다. 초등학교 수학 교과서의 마지막 단원은 '문제 푸는 방법 찾기' 단원인데, 이 단원에 제시된 문제들은 대체로 비정형화된 문제들이다. 정형화된 문제에 익숙한 아동들은 이러한 비정형 문제들을 해결하는 데에 상당히 어려움을 나타내곤 한다. 본교에서는 이러한 아동들의 어려움을 해결할 수 있는 방안으로 협력학습을 택하였다. 또래들과의 상호작용 속에서 비정형화된 문제에 보다 친숙하게 접근하고 해결해 나가는 과정을 반복하다 보면 수학에 대한 흥미를 되찾게 되고, 문제 해결력과 수학적 사고력이 향상될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국데이터정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.49-57
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• 2005

지금의 교실 수업은 토론학습에 익숙한 학생들로 수업에 흥미를 가지는 수업에 관심을 많이 갖고 있으며 수준별 수업을 통한 심화.보충형과 특별 보충과정으로 학생 지도를 하고 있다. 교실마다 수학 학습을 기피하는 현상이 두드려지고 있으며 개인별 수준 차가 더욱 심한 상태라서 학생들에게 동기를 유발하여 수학에 대한 학습 의욕을 고취하고 교실 밖의 학습자를 교실내로 흡수하기 위한 방법론으로 모둠별 돌림수학, 수준별 모둠 구성을 통해 박수를 치기, 구구단을 이용한 학습과 수학 모둠 노래를 통하여 학습동기를 유발하는 학습 모형을 소개한다. 그리고 수행평가나 포트폴리오, 수학 감상문을 통해 동기 유발이 가능한 실제 학습을 개발하여 공교육의 내실화와 창의력을 유발하는 자아실현의 일환으로 신선한 교실 수업의 보탬이 되었으면 한다.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.155-168
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• 2008

The theory of representation, which has been an important topic of epistemology, has long history of study. But it has diverse meaning according to the fields of argument. In this paper the author set the meaning of mathematical representation as the interrelation of internal and external representations. With this concept, the following items were studied. 1. Survey on the concepts of mathematical representations. 2. Investigation of pedagogical significance of the mathematical representations, taking into account the characteristics of school mathematics. 3. Recommendation of principles for teaching representation to cope with the problems that are related with cause of disliking each domain of the secondary school mathematics. This study is expected to enable the development of teaching methods to help students strengthening their ability to comprehend mathematical sentences.