• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.403-426
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• 2012

This paper analyzed 20 teaching practices of elementary mathematics lessons which were recognized as effective instruction by the local educational offices throughout Korea, using an analytic framework with 4 main domains (i.e., curriculum and content, teaching and learning, classroom environment and atmosphere, and assessment) and a total of 44 sub-elements. The results of this study showed that the lessons focused on the key mathematics concepts according to the national mathematics curriculum and learning objectives, managed students in terms of shared rules within each classroom, and evaluated students' understanding of the concepts at the end of the lesson. However, the lessons did not foster students' calculation skills and only partly used either technology or game. Building on the related studies, this paper included implications of implementing high-quality mathematics instruction.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.12
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• pp.141-153
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• 2001

지금의 수학교육현장은 결과적인 완성된 지식을 교사 주도하에 연역적으로 지도하는 것에 대해 문제가 있는 것으로 지적되어 그에 대한 대안으로 본 논문은 인지갈등을 통한 수학과 학습 모형을 이용한 교수-학습 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 인지 갈등을 유발하여 학습동기를 부여한 후 학생과 교사가 함께 그 갈등을 풀어 나감으로서 동기유발과 수학적 능력을 길러 줄 수 있을 것이다. 특히, 보편화된 컴퓨터 환경은 이러한 수업을 더욱 용이하게 함에 주목하고 또 문제 설정 등 다양한 기법을 통한 수업 모형을 효과적으로 활용할 수 있으며 주제에 따라서는 수학사적 내용을 첨가하여 흥미 있는 수업을 할 수 있다. 이러한 수업방법은 학생들의 흥미와 참여를 유도하게 되어 효과적일 것이다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.341-358
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• 2021

Corona, which first broke out in 2020, has caused many changes in many parts of society. Education was not an exception to this change. Teachers had to prepare online classes and students were asked to participate in it without sufficient preparation. Regarding online learning, many studies, in the field of developing teaching module and material or observing the satisfaction of online class, were conducted but there was no study based on how online class is happening in school. Therefore, this study was to investigate the current situation and satisfaction of online class for high school students and explored the relationship between sub-elements of mathematics learning and the level of satisfaction of online learning. As a result, mathematics online class was generally conducted in the form of real-time interactive classes and students felt a little satisfied with it. However, some conflicting opinions were expressed on the continuation of mathematics online learning. In addition, the study found that the higher level of satisfaction students have with online class, the difference appears in the sub-elements of learning mathematics such as values of mathematics, and motivation to learn, willingness to learn mathematics, learning strategies according to the safisfactory level of online class.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.83-94
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• 2019

Current mathematics curriculum of South Korea suggests that students learn mathematics in school with calculators except that the aim of the math lessons is to achieve calculation skills, but we can't be sure that elementary school students use calculators in math lessons of school. Actually we don't have enough data to identify how many elementary school students use calculators in math lessons. The aims of this study are to compare the ratio of elementary school students using calculators in math lessons of school between 20 countries and to analyse the relation between using calculators in math lessons and the achievements of math through $4^{th}$ grade mathematics test of TIMSS 2015. The results of this study are two. One is that generally $4^{th}$ grade students did not use calculators in math lessons. The other result is that generally there is no relation between using calculators in math lessons and the achievements of the math test through $4^{th}$ grade mathematics test of TIMSS 2015. Only in Hong Kong SAR, students without using calculators have higher achievements than students using calculators. In England and USA, students using calculators have higher achievements than students without using calculators. Finally, researcher in this study suggests some implications on using calculator in elementary schools.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.15
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• pp.207-214
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• 2003

수학교육에서 학생들이 학습을 통하여 습득하여할 중요한 주제는 수학 지식과 수학을 다루는 인지적 조작 기술일 것이다. 특히 수학지식과 지식의 활용은 문제해결을 통한 학습에서 의미 있게 학생에게 나타나며 이를 통하여 수학 학습 동기를 강화하고 수학의 가치를 느끼게 한다는 점에서 중요한 의의를 갖는다. 대학수준의 수학교육과정에서도 문제해결은 중요한 수학교육의 중심 수단으로서 목적으로서 선언되어 있지만 실제 수업에서 잘 다루고 있지 못하다. 문제해결 지도에 대한 접근 방식으로 1950년대의 문제해결전략을 다룬 Polya, 1990년대의 메타인지적 접근을 강조한 Schoenfeld 및 최근의 여러 연구자들의 활발한 연구가 이어지고 있다. 본 논문에서 대학 수준의 문제해결 수업의 접근 방법을 소개함으로 문제해결 수업을 구현할 수 있는 지식을 제공한다. 특히 Schoenfeld의 문제해결 수업 모델은 수학 교육의 교실 수업으로의 구현 측면에서 갖는 다양한 함의를 제시한다.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.77-89
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• 2012

Considerable efforts have been attempted to identify what makes high-quality mathematics instruction, including diversity and variability across different educational systems and cultural contexts. As the instructional elements related to effective mathematics teaching can be commonly applied to different content domains, they may be efficient in selecting such teaching. However, such elements may not reflect on the specific but essential features of each domain. This paper compared and contrasted two sets of measurement teaching practices, which were recognized as good instruction, in terms of how the key elements of measurement domain were implemented. As such this paper is expected to accumulate significant knowledge about elements of effective mathematics instruction that are specialized in a particular content domain of measurement. This paper suggests that domain-specific approach be considered in studying good mathematics teaching.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.257-275
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• 2023

In this study, we designed and implemented a instruction emphasizing mathematical argument for fifth-grade students and analyzed the teaching practices. Through a literature review related to instruction emphasizing mathematical argument, we organized a teaching model of five phases that explain why the general claim that the sum of consecutive odd numbers equals a square number is true: 1) noticing patterns, 2) articulating conjectures, 3) representing through visual model, 4) arguing based on representation, 5) comparing and contrasting. Then, we analyzed the argumentation stream by phases to observe how the instruction emphasizing mathematical argument is implemented in the elementary classroom. Based on the results of this study, we discuss the implications of teaching a mathematical argument in elementary school.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.297-311
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• 2013

The mainstream approaches to understand the characteristics of North Korean mathematics education focus on the comparative studies between South and North Korean mathematics curriculum and textbooks through literature analysis. These approaches make it possible to understand what is taught in mathematics class of North Korean school. But it is hard to find any information on how teachers teach mathematics and how students learn it. This study searches North Korean class environment, preparation for class, teaching and learning methods to understand mathematics class in North Korea as they really are. It is extremely difficult to make first-hand observations on North Korean class. Instead, this paper adopted interviews with teachers who have experience of teaching in North Korean school and now live in South Korea. By doing this, it is possible to get some understanding, although somewhat limited, the real aspects of North Korean mathematics class. As a result, there are distinct differences in the characteristics of North Korean mathematics class environment, preparation for class, teaching and learning methods, compared with South Korean.

• School Mathematics
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.37-63
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• 2011

This research had investigated the teaching practice in the mathematics classrooms with immigrant students to describe how effectively mathematics teachers create inclusive learning environment of mathematics. The analysis of the data from the elementary schools suggests that teaching practice in the class was consistent to the criteria for 'contextualization of students' lived experience' and 'mathematical conversation'. However, while the quantitative results suggested that the teachers showed high expectation to their students in their teaching, the qualitative analysis revealed the teacher's beliefs and attitudes against providing equitable educational opportunity for every student. In the middle school classrooms, it was found that the teaching practices were not compatible to the goals of multicultural mathematics education. The analysis of the survey data regarding teachers' multicultural competence suggests that the teachers possessed rather advan]ced understanding of multicultural mathematics education but they need materials and pedagogy for classroom teaching from multicultural perspectives.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.221-246
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• 2011

One of the main purposes in prospective elementary teacher education is to prepare for teaching each subject matter. For this purpose, it is necessary to explore how prospective teachers may analyze elementary mathematics instruction and they perceive their analytic foci. This study probed in what ways prospective teachers analyzed elementary mathematics instruction using two video cases. The results of this study showed that prospective teachers focused mainly on instructional strategies, specifically with regard to whether such strategies would be adequate both for mathematical content to be taught and for students' characteristics. They also focused on the effective use of instructional materials as well as the case teacher's adequate feedback. Prospective teachers claimed to have analytic foci not only on the degree of attainment of instructional purposes but also on students' responses and interest. Given this result, this paper includes several issues related to help prospective teachers prepare for better teaching.