• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.385-408
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to find out the actual status of the math after-school program in the elementary school and the content of the program. We survey the 115 math external math lecturers of the 100 elementary schools in Busan and analyze the results. Research questions are set as follows. 1. What is the status of the elementary math after-school? 2. How is the content of the program of the elementary math after-school? The results of the survey are analyzed as follows. First, any of the external math after-school lecturer did not major in math education and 87% of them majored in another discipline. Second, 47% of the external math after-school lecturers are employed by privately-held companies. Third, 64.4% of the content of the after-school programs is the supplement and deepening of the regular math class. Fourth, 76.5% of the time of the first class of the math after-school program is 50 minutes and 46% of the math after-school opens 5 classes per a week. Fifth, most programs consist of the problem-solving style class. Sixth, it is difficult to run the math after-school according to students' level and grade. Based on the above discussion, I suggest the following. First, math after-school class should be the action-oriented class to motivate the positive and interested participation of the students. Second, lecturer training and various math class programs is required to improve the quality of the math after-school class.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.19 no.1 s.21
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• pp.33-44
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• 2005

한국의 대학수학 교육에 대한 여러 종류의 관심이 다양한 현실적 필요성에서 대학의 수학 교수들 사이에서 일고 있다. 대학수학 교육의 어떤 연구 주제를 누가 어디에서 어떻게 연구하여야 연구로서 가치, 타당성 그리고 연구 결과를 유용하게 활용할 수 있는지 등 연구의 방향, 목표, 그리고 결과의 활용에 대한 적절한 합리적 준거틀에 대한 논의가 부족한 실정이다. 일반적으로 수학교육에 대한 연구 결과는 실제 수학 수업을 수행하는 교수, 교사 또는 교육행정가에게 유용한 정보, 지식 그리고 수업 수행 방법(기술) 등을 제공하여 그들의 의사결정 문제를 결정하도록 적절한 도움을 줄 수 있는 유용성을 가져야 한다. 학교수학 교육은 국가적 교육과정을 갖고 있다 이에 비하여 대학수학 교육은 각 대학마다 다른 교육 환경과 목표를 반영한 대학교육과정에 대학수학 관련 교과(강좌) 또는 수학전공 교과들이 포함되어있다. 다양한 대학교육 환경과 시스템에 놓여있는 대학수학 교육의 상황 또는 현상을 개선하기 위한 연구의 수행 원칙과 질적 기준들 무엇인가?를 논하였다.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.119-141
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• 2019

This study was carried out in order to draw some implications for teaching statistical graph in mathematics education with respect to practical statistics education for promoting students' statistical literacy. We analyze 133 graphs appearing in 99 elementary textbooks of other subjects (subjects except from mathematics) by subjects and types, and identify some cases of graphs addressed by other subjects. As a results, statistical graph was most addressed in social studies, and bar graphs, line graphs, tables, and circle graphs are most used in other subjects. Moreover, there are some issues related to contents-(1) the problem of curricular sequencing between mathematics and other subjects, (2) the level of addressing ratio graph, and (3) the use of wavy lines. In terms of forms, (1) the visual variation of graphical representations, (2) representation combining multiple graphs, and (2) graphs specialized for particular subjects are drawn as other issues. We suggest some implications to be considered when teaching the statistical graph in elementary mathematics classes.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.10 no.1 s.19
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• pp.57-70
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• 2007

This study is aimed at the improvement of the teaching mathematics via the use of the mathematical history based on the learning stages which are understanding the problem, seeking after and solving the problem, application and development, and understanding the homeworks. General questions of this study are as follows according to the purpose of this study: First, we develop materials to use the teaching and learning stages which are understanding the problem, seeking after and solving the problem, application and development, and understanding the homeworks. Second, we search the effective methods for using materials which are developed in this study. Third, we apply materials to the teaching and learning mathematics. To answer the problems, 1 class students of the 4th grade in Gwangju participated in this study. Teaching and learning which uses mathematical history based on the learning stages is performed. The following results were obtained in this research. First, the teaching and learning using materials which is related to mathematical history is effective in improvement of students' mathematical ability. Second, the teaching and learning using material which is related to mathematics history is effective in improvement of students' mathematical attitude. In special, mathematical attitude of students who are involved in learning using materials which is related to mathematical history is more positive than that of general students using traditional teaching methods. Lastly, generalization of newly developed materials should be done to get more development and upgrade.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.253-273
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• 2008

The key feature of the $7^{th}$ Education curriculum, which is applied by order by year from 2000, is represented by differentiated curriculum. In order to embody differentiated curriculum, it is extensively recommended the level-based instruction. Level-based class basically has purposes to give students matched study experiences in accordance with their abilities and to help all students to understand what they have learned through providing differentiated instruction with considering the learners' stand points. The preceding researches have reported many cases about operating methods and educational effectiveness for the level-based instruction. In the meantime, researches about students' acceptances or opinions related to the level-based instruction are not sufficient. In this research, students opinions about level-based instruction are analyzed, based on the distinction of sex and level, and improving operational methods are suggested.

• School Mathematics
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.773-791
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• 2016

Teacher noticing ability has been considered as one of important elements influencing a quality of teaching. Noticing is closely related to teachers' in the moment decision making in a class, and teachers notice things as they create and interact with their classroom setting. Mathematics teachers as an expert should notice students' mathematics learning during a class. The aim of this study was to analyze how mathematics teacher's pre-noticing activity that the teacher anticipated students' typical strategies and difficulties in learning targeted mathematics knowledge and prepared appropriate responses worked in practice. As a result, the teacher conducted three types of noticing in her classes: noticing shaping students' understanding by using students' misconceptions or errors; noticing creating students' learning opportunities based on their prior knowledge; noticing improving students' informal reasoning. This study concluded with discussion about the positive effect of teacher's pre-noticing activity on her actual noticing in practice, as well as implications for teacher education.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.547-565
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• 2010

The study aims to compare between two lectures of elementary mathematics education in United States and Korea based on the Ball et al.'s classification of mathematical knowledge for teaching. The lecturers are a professor of University in United States and me. In both lectures, subjects and contents of lectures are much similar but there are many different things. And the differences are mainly due to the area of pedagogical content knowledge, especially either knowledge of content and students or knowledge of content and teaching. Also the different courses of both universities are one of important causes of the differences. The study will be able to contribute to the studies on the improvement of our course, elementary mathematics education.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.745-770
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• 2013

In the knowledge-based society today, most knowledge is the integrated one which is difficult to be classified into subjects rather than the knowledge of a single subject. Thus, integrated thinking, which integrated knowledge is preferentially acquired first and then can be also associated with imagination and artistic sensitivity, is simultaneously required in order that we have a problem-solving capability in our daily life. STEAM education(science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) is one of the educational methods to improve this problem-solving capability as well as integrated thinking. This research developed materials for STEAM education which can be applied to the 6th grade curriculum of elementary school mathematics, then input it, and analyzed how it impacts with students' attitudes toward mathematics. Unit 3 'Prism' and Pyramid' were restructured and replaced by classes such as 'Spaghetti Project' or 'Paper Craft'. Unit 4 'Several Solid Figure' was taught as a class of 'EDUCUBE'. Unit 6 'Proportional Graph' was taught as a class of 'Creating my own bracelet'. After having this class, we found that mathematics class applied STEAM also has a positive effect on the mathematical attitude of students. Many students said that math is fun and gets more interesting after having math class applied STEAM and we come to know that they have positive awareness of mathematics.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.275-286
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• 2002

교사 중심 수업과 획일적인 평균 교육으로 인해, 창의적인 사고와 탐구활동이 학습과정에서 소홀히 취급되면서, 문제를 인식하고 해결할 수 있는 기회를 학생들에게 제공하지 못하였다. 또한 이러한 교수 ${\cdot}$ 학습의 불균형은 학생들에게 진정한 수학의 가치를 경험할 수 없게 만들고 있다. 본고는 이러한 교실수업을 개선하기 위해 (1) 수준별 교수 ${\cdot}$ 학습 자료를 개발하고, (2) 수준별 협동학습에 적용하여 (3) 문제해결 능력에 미치는 영향을 고찰해 보고자 한다. 수준별 협동학습은 학생들의 능력에 따른 맞춤수업과 그들의 자기표현 욕구 및 공동체에 대한 소속감을 증진시킴으로써, 학습 부진의 누적을 예방하고 협동하는 사회 교육실현에 도움을 줄 것으로 기대된다.

• School Mathematics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.423-441
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to examine the Pedagogical Content Knowledge(PCK) of teachers and their educational practice in the category of plane figure, to make a comparative analysis of their PCK and educational practice, and to discuss the relationship between their PCK and the characteristics of their instruction. Instruction of four selected elementary school teachers was analyzed to find out their educational practice. In conclusion, the characteristics of the PCK and actual instruction of the teachers could be listed as below: First, as a result of comparing their PCK and educational practice on plane figure by applying selected analysis criteria, there was a close correlation between their PCK and actual instruction. Second, the teachers had various levels of PCK on different areas. Especially, there was a large disparity in mathematical content knowledge and knowledge of teaching methods. Third, the teachers who had plenty of PCK were more excellent in textbook reconstructing, and those who fell behind in terms of PCK were more reliant on textbooks as if the textbooks had been the Bible.