• School Mathematics
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.649-669
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• 2008

The study focuses on what to consider and do for the improvement of math education of Korea by comparing two general high school students' and two specialized high school students' beliefs about mathematics and mathematics learning. The major topics compared in the beliefs are composed of perception of mathematics as a science, learning methods of mathematics. The results of the study show that two general high school students tend to set more low value on mathematics, especially in the value of implement, civilization, utility of mathematics than that of two specialized high school students.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.11
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• pp.235-250
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• 2001

수학적 지식이나 새로운 아이디어 탐구에 있어 종합적, 그리고 분석적 활동에 대한 관심은 그 역사가 매우 깊고, 최근에도 교수-학습 과정에서의 종합-분석적 활동을 효과적으로 활용하려는 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 최근의 연구까지의 연구 결과를 종합하여, 종합-분석적 활동의 본질을 개념화하고, 그 유형을 체계화함으로써 좀더 효율적인 수학 교수-학습을 위한 이론적 토대를 제공할 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.265-286
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• 2006

Given that less attention has been paid to teachers than students in mathematics education, this study attempted to provide theoretical foundations to understand better mathematics teacher learning and teaching practice in transition. First, this paper summarized three conceptions of teacher learning on the basis of the relationships of knowledge and practice followed by several implications to mathematics teacher education. Second, this paper provided a brief overview of cognition as situated, social, and distributed. This paper then explored new implications and issues about mathematics teacher learning that the overview brought to light. It is expected for teacher educators and researchers to participate in rich discussion of many implicit issues about teacher learning that this paper begins to raise.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.329-349
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the mathematical belief of elementary school preservice teachers and elementary school teachers and to analyze their differences in mathematical belief. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, Elementary school preservice teachers generally regard the belief in the nature of mathematics as 'rules and procedures' and emphasize the 'process of inquiry' about the beliefs of learning mathematics. When comparing the beliefs according to gender, there is a significant difference only in the category of 'teacher instruction' among the beliefs of learning mathematics. Second, elementary school teachers generally regard the nature of mathematics as a 'inquiry process' and have a 'student-led' belief about the learning mathematics. There is no significant difference of the belief about the nature of mathematics and learning mathematics between the elementary school teachers by gender and majors. However, when comparing the mathematical beliefs according to educational level, there is a difference in beliefs about the nature of mathematics. Third, comparing the mathematical beliefs of elementary school preservice teachers and elementary school teachers, there is no statistically significant difference between the two groups in the 'rules and procedures' subcategories of the nature of mathematics, but there is a significant difference in 'inquiry process'.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.15
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• pp.53-58
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• 2003

본 연구는 교사양성 대학에 적합한 현대대수학 강좌운영의 실례를 소개하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 군, 환, 벡터공간 내용을 적절히 재구성한다. 갈로아 정리는 고차방정식 근의 가해성과 밀접한 관련이 있으므로 중 ${\cdot}$ 고등학교육과정과도 관련지을 수 있다. 그러나 근론과 환룐, 벡터공간의 이론적 배경을 바탕으로 체론의 갈로아 정리로 나아가는 과정에서 많은 학생들이 어려움을 토로하는 것이 현실이다. 이처럼 그 내용의 중요성에 비해 실질적인 접근의 어려움으로 인하여 체론을 아예 배우지 않거나 배우더라도 그 본질을 이해하지 못하는 경우가 많다. 따라서 본 연구에서는, 교사양성 대학의 학생들의 갈로아 정리의 핵심과 본질을 보다 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 함에 초점을 두고자 한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.5
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• pp.288-299
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• 1997

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.11
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• pp.279-290
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• 2001

교사와 학생사이의 수학적 활동의 대표적인 매개체가 수학 문제이다. 그러나, 수학 교육 분야에서 객관화된 연구 대상으로서 수학 문제에 대한 개념 규정, 수학 문제의 분류, 수학 문제의 구조 등에 관한 심도있는 연구는 드물다. 본 연구에서는 객관적인 대상으로서의 수학 문제 자체에 대한 분석적 고찰을 통해, 수학 문제에 대한 개념 규정, 수학 문제의 특성들, 그리고 수학 문제의 구조에 대한 본질을 규명할 것이다.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.49-64
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• 2019

The purpose of the study was to examine the current status of prospective elementary school teachers' mathematical beliefs. 339 future elementary school teachers majoring in mathematics education from 4 universities participated in the study. The questionnaire used in the TEDS-M(Tatto et al., 2008) was translated into Korean for the purpose of the study. The researchers analyzed the pre-service elementary teachers' beliefs about the nature of mathematics and about mathematics learning. Also, the results of the survey was analyzed by various aspects. To determine differences between the groups, one-way analysis of variance was used. To check the relationship between beliefs about the nature of mathematics and about the mathematics learning, correlation analysis was used. The results of the study revealed that the pre-service elementary teachers tends to believe that the nature of mathematics as 'process of inquiry' rather than 'rules and procedures' which is a view that mathematics as ready-made knowledge. In addition, the pre-service elementary teachers tend to consider 'active learning' as desirable aspects in mathematics teaching-learning practice, while 'teacher's direction' was not. We found that there were statistically significant correlation between 'process of inquiry' and 'active learning' and between 'rules and procedures' and 'teacher direction'. On the basis of these results, more extensive and multifaced research on mathematical beliefs should be needed to design curriculum and plan lessons for future teachers.

• School Mathematics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.161-176
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• 2006

Some adequate programs for mathematising are necessary to pre-service mathematics teachers, if they can guide their prospective students in secondary school to make a mathematising. They should be used to mathematising. In this paper, mathematising teaching units for the inquiry into number partition models with constant differences are designed for this purpose. They guide a series of process to make nooumenon for organizing phainomenon which is organized already through number partition model. Especially the new nooumenon and the process of obtaining it are discussed. But it is restricted when the numbers for partitioning are natural numbers, and elements and their differences are integers. Through these teaching units, pre-service mathematics teachers can experience and practice secondary mathematising, as they go through the procedures which are similar with those of mathematicians making theorems.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.69-92
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• 2024

This study analyzed students' mathematical noticing in high school sequence classes based on students' two perceptions of sequence. Specifically, mathematical noticing was analyzed in four aspects: center of focus, focusing interaction, task features, and nature of mathematics activities, and the following results were obtained. First of all, the change pattern of central of focus could not be uniquely described by any one component among 'focusing interaction', 'task features', and 'the nature of mathematical activities'. Next, the interactions between the components of mathematical noticing were identified, and the teacher's individual feedback during small group activities influenced the formation of the center of focus. Finally, students showed two different modes of reasoning even within the same classroom, that is, focusing interaction, task features, and nature of mathematics activities that resulted in the same focus. It is hoped that this study will serve as a catalyst for more active research on students' understanding of sequence.