• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.471-489
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• 2012

2007 Curriculum Revision adopted new Inquiry Activities in mathematical textbooks. So it is critical to analyze the problems of actual application of Inquiry activities in the classrooms. For this purpose, we analyzed the Inquiry activities of Measurement Area of the textbooks and find the appropriate solutions. Secondly, we develop the reorganization materials to fix and solve the existing problems found in the previous problem analysis, and apply the development materials and examine the effects afterwards. The results of the survey indicated that most of teachers are well aware of the importance of Inquiry Activities. However, many teachers answered that Inquiry activities does contain neither diverse strategic approaches nor solutions accommodating with various learning levels of students. The most difficult points to educate Inquiry Activities are that it is difficult to teach students based on individual learning level and that activities consist of mainly short answers that makes it difficult to do in-depth Inquiry Activities. Analyzing Inquiry Activities in the textbook shows that Inquiry Activities in some chapters were constructed as simple sentence questions or presented with the solving process in the questions themselves. The following application classes were implemented by partially taking advantage of the newly developed reorganization materials. Then, the effects were measured by before and after questionnaires, the survey to teachers, and the results of activities. The reorganization materials were effective at arousing the curiosity from students as well as enabling the natural ability-level driven classes.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.51-66
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to analyse the cases of the posed problems while the mathematically gifted students are playing the NIM game. The findings of a qualitative case study have led to the conclusions as follows. Most of all mathematically gifted students in the elementary school are not intend to suggest the solutions of the posed problem unless the teacher or the 'problem is requested. But a higher level of promising children were changing each data components of a problem in a consistent way and restructuring the problems while controlling their cognitive process. This is compared to that a relatively lower level of promising children tends to modify one or two data components instantly without trying to look at the whole structure. And we gave 2 suggestions to teach the mathematically gifted students in the problem posing.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.31-45
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• 2016

In this study, the case of error became the object of learning, and the investigator applied these cases to an actual class and established three study problems in order to achieve the purpose of this study. The results of analysis of students' errors in figure based on before achievement test are shown as follows: First, the most errors occurred in the figure was the ones from deficient mastery of prerequisite concepts and definitions. Specially, the errors from deficient mastery of prerequisite concepts and definitions have the majority. it is very high ratio even if it considers an influence of an evaluation question item. so, I think it is necessary to teach concept related figure above all. Second, as the results of application 'finding errors' to a class, there is a meaningful difference in the mathematical achievement and reasoning ability within significance level 5%. This means 'finding errors' is one of the teaching method that it develops the mathematical achievement and reasoning ability.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.335-351
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to develop Project-Based Teaching-Learning materials for mathematically gifted students using a Fermat Point and apply the developed educational materials to practical classes, analyze, revise and correct them in order to make the materials be used in the field. I reached the conclusions as follows. First, Fermat Point is a good learning materials for mathematically gifted students. Second, when the students first meet the challenge of solving a problem, they observed, analyzed and speculated it with their prior knowledge. Third, students thought deductively and analogically in the process of drawing a conclusion based on observation. Fourth, students thought critically in the process of refuting the speculation. From the result of this study, the following suggestions can be supported. First, it is necessary to develop Teaching-Learning materials sustainedly for mathematically gifted students. Second, there needs a valuation criteria to analyze how learning materials were contributed to increase the mathematical ability. Third, there needs a follow up study about what characteristics of gifted students appeared.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.387-407
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• 2014

This study investigeted secondary math teachers' difficulties of technology in geometry class with grounded theory by Strauss and Corbin. 178 secondary math teachers attending the professional development program on technology-based geometry teaching at eight locations in January 2014, participated in this study with informed consents. Data was collected with an open-ended questionnaire survey. In line with grounded theory, open, axial and selective coding were applied to data analysis. According to the results of this study, teachers were found to experience resistance in using technology due to new learning and changes, with knowledge and awareness of technology effectively interacting to lessen such resistance. In using technology, teachers were found to go through the 'access-resistance-unaccepted use-acceptance' stages. Teachers having difficulties in using technology included the following four types: 'inaccessible, denial of acceptance, discontinuation of use, and acceptance 'These findings suggest novel perspectives towards teachers having difficulties in using technology, providing implications for teachers' professional development.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.1-27
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• 2010

This study intends to provide implications about sluggish use of calculators in our case by analyzing the math textbook of U.S. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill along with the tendency of paying more attention to math class using technologies. From the results of analysis, this textbook deals with various methods over around 3.3% of all pages, using calculators across all grades from 1st to 6th grade. In particular, it offers guidance into three types such as 'Choose a Computation Method', 'You can also use a calculator.', and 'TECHNOLOGY LINK', while particularly it is impressive in the perspective of using calculators as one of calculation strategies. And case studies of usage in textbooks describe 8 different perspectives as an example-represent; solve problems or equations; develope or demonstrate conceptual understanding; analyze; compute or estimate; describe, explain or justify; choose appropriate calculation method; determine a calculated answer's reasonableness. Reflecting on the fact that we still use calculators in a passive way, there are considerable implications to us.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.73-96
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• 2002

수학적인 사고력과 창의력이 강조되고 있는 요즈음 수학교육에서는, 이산수학적인 영역이 담당해야 할부분이 더욱 많아진 것으로 생각된다. 이에 발맞춰, 최근에 이산수학에 관한 연구가 활발해지고 있다. 그러나, 아직 초등학교에서 적절히 사용할 수 있는 별도의 이산수학 관련 서적이나 연구 문헌이 없어 아동들의 이산수학에 대한 관심과, 수학 성적과 이산수학의 문제 해결력과의 관계에 대하여 조사해 보았다. 이산수학의 문제들을 구성하여 아동들에게 예고 없이 평가하고 문제에 대한 수학적인 태도를 질문을 통하여 알아보고, 수학 실력이 우수한 학생과 그렇지 못한 학생들과의 이산수학 문제 해결력의 관계를 알아보고자 다음과 같은 연구 내용을 설정하였다. 이를 살펴보면 첫째, 초등 수학교육에서 이산수학에 대한 학생들의 반응에 대하여 생각해 본다. 둘째, 수학 성적과 이산수학 문제 해결과의 관계를 생각해 본다. 이상의 연구 문제를 해결하기 위해, 문헌 연구를 통하여 이산수학에 관련된 초등학교 내용을 소개하고, 문항을 구성하였다. 소개된 주제 중에서 4개의 주제(수 세기, 한 붓 그리기, 지도 색칠하기, 최소 거리 ${\cdot}$ 비용 수형도)를 선정하여 10개의 문항을 작성하였다. 조사 연구를 위한 대상은 서운 시내 2개 초등학교 5, 6학년 2개 반을 선정하였다. 각 문항의 정답율은 백분율(%)에 의하여 분석하였는데 그 결과를 살펴보면, 첫째, 수 세기의 정답율은 첫 번째 문항의 정답율이 낮았을 뿐, 다른 문항들의 정답율은 비교적 좋게 나타난 것으로 보아 문제를 이해하기 쉽게 구성하는 것이 중요하다는 것을 알게 되었다. 둘째, 한 붓 그리기와 지도 색칠하기의 문제들의 정답율은 상당히 높게 나타났는데, 그러한 것은 아동들이 직접 다양한 방법으로 시도해 봄으로써 문제를 해결할 수 있었기 때문인 것 같다. 또한 이러한 유형의 문제들은 아래 학년에도 투입해 볼 수 있을 것 같다. 셋째, 최소거리 ${\cdot}$ 비용 수형도의 문제에서는 난이도가 높은 이유도 있지만 문제 이해를 완전히 하지 못해 정답율이 무척 낮게 나온 것으로 생각된다. 넷째, 수학 성적이 높은 학생들이 대체적으로 문제 해결력이 높았던 것으로 나타났으나, 몇몇 학생들은 정반대의 결과가 나와 특이한 시사점을 제공했다. 그러한 이유로는 정형화된 문제들을 선호하고 쉽게 해결하는 아동들과, 그렇지 않은 아동들 사이의 문제 접근 방법의 차이라고 생각된다. 본 연구를 통하여 다음과 같은 제언을 하고자 한다. 첫째, 이산수학에 관련된 많은 문항을 개발하여 아동들에게 확대 투입함으로써 수학 수업의 효과와 문제 해결력을 높일 수 있을 것이라 생각된다. 둘째, 수학 실력이 떨어지는 아동들에게 보다 흥미있는 이산수학적 문제들을 제시함으로써 수학에 대한 자신감과 흥미를 높일 수 있을 것이라 생각된다. 셋째, 초등학교 과정에 알맞은 이산수학의 다른 주제도 학습 지도안과 그와 관련된 문제들을 개발하는 연구가 진행되어야 하겠다.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.497-507
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• 2017

Research on software education and linking and convergence of other subjects has been mainly focused on mathematics and science subjects. The dissatisfaction of various preferences and types of learning personality cause to learning gap. In addition, it is not desirable considering the solution of various fusion problems that can apply the computational thinking. In this way, it is possible to embrace the diverse tendencies and preferences of students through the linkage with the English subject, which is a linguistic approach that deviates from the existing mathematical and scientific approach. By combining similarities in the process of learning a new language of English education and software education. For this purpose, based on the analysis of teaching - learning model of elementary English subject and software education, we developed a class model by modifying existing English subject and software teaching - learning model to be suitable for linkage. Then, the learning elements applicable to software education were extracted from the contents of elementary school English curriculum, and a program applied to the developed classroom model was designed and the practical application method of learning was searched.

• School Mathematics
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.537-555
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• 2008

The study aims to analyze elementary school students' understanding of the concept of equality sign in contexts, to reflect the types of contexts for equality sign which mathematics textbook series for $1{\sim}4$ grades on natural numbers and its operation provide, and to invetigate the effects of teaching methods of the concept of equality sign suggested in this research. In order to achieve these purposes, the origin, concept, and contexts of equality sign were theoretically reviewed and organized. Also the error types in using equality sign were reflected. Modelling, discussing truth or falsity of equations, identifying relations between numbers and their operation, conjecturing basic properties of numbers and their operations, experiencing diverse contexts for equality sign, and creating contexts for equality sign are set up as teaching methods for better understanding the concept of equality sign. The conclusions are as follows. Firstly, elementary school students' under-standing of the concept of equality sign varied by context and was generally far from satisfactory. In particular, they had difficulties in understanding the concept of the equal sign in contexts with operations on both sides. The most frequently witnessed error was to recognize equality sign as a result of operations. Secondly, student' lack of understanding of the concept of equality sign came from the fact that elementary textbooks failed to provide diverse contexts for equality sign. According to the textbook analysis, contexts with operations on the left side of the equal sign in the form of $a{\pm}b=c$ were provided excessively, with the other contexts hardly seen. Thirdly, teaching methods provided in the study were found to be effective for enhancing understanding the concept of equality sign. In other words, these methods enabled students to focus on relational understanding of concept of equality sign rather than operational one.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.267-282
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to develop and apply a Convergence program for teaching of congruence and symmetry and to investigate the effects of the mathematical creativity and convergence talent. For these purposes, research questions were set up as follows: 1. How is a Convergence program for teaching of congruence and symmetry developed? 2. How does a Convergence program affect the mathematics creativity and convergence talent of fifth grade student in elementary school? The subjects in this study were 16 students in fifth-grade class in elementary school located in Songpa-gu, Seoul. A Convergence program was developed using the integrated unit design process chose the concept of congruence and symmetryas its topic. The developed program consisted of a total 12 class activities plan, lesson plans for 5 activities. Mathematics creativity test, a test on affective domain related with convergence talent measurement were carried out before and after the application of the developed program so as to analyze the its effects. In addition, students' satisfaction for the developed program was investigated by a questionnaire. The results of this study were as follows: First, A convergence program should be developed using the integrated unit design process to avoid focusing on the content of any one subject area. The program for teaching of congruence and symmetry should be considered students' learning style and their preferences for media. Second, the convergence program improved the students' mathematical creativity and convergence talent. Among the sub-factors of mathematical creativity, originality was especially improved by this program. Students thought that the program is good for their creativity. Plus, this program use two subject class, Math and Art, so student do not think about one subject but focus on topic 'congruence and symmetry'. It help students to develop their convergence talent.