• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.487-509
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• 2012

This study, in order to contribute to improvement of the affective domain for mathematics which is one of the largest issues of mathematics education, examined the background variables influencing mathematics anxiety of middle/high school students. As the result, the middle school students showed a greater level of anxiety than the high school students did, and especially the anxiety level according to environment factor and learning strategy factor was high. Also, male students showed overall a greater mathematics anxiety than female students did, and both group of students showed a higher anxiety level according to environment factor and learning strategy factor. Besides, the greater the time spent on private education was, the higher the mathematics anxiety level, and in test/performance factor, the group with low self-initiated learning time showed a higher level of mathematics anxiety compared to other two groups. Among four subfactors of mathematics anxiety test, the students overall scored lowest in anxiety for test/performance factor, and highest in environment factor.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.325-354
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• 2020

This study utilized longitudinal data from the 2013 year (Secondary Middle School) to 2017 year (Secondary High School) of the Seoul Education Termination Study. Using the latent growth model and the piecewise growth model, we investigated the changes in mathematics academic achievement, internal factors(self-concept, self-control, self-assessment of life satisfaction), and external factors(school climate, guardians) as students' grades increased, and examined whether internal factors and external factors influence the changes in mathematics academic achievement. We examined whether internal and external factors influence the change in academic achievement. As a result of analysis, it was found that mathematics academic achievement remained unchanged from the first grade of middle school to the second grade of middle school, and steadily increased from the second grade of middle school to the first grade of high school, and then decreased slightly in the second grade of high school. The internal and external factors had little change. It has been found that self-concept, self-control as internal factors, and school climate as external factors influence changes in mathematics academic achievement.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.187-201
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• 2017

The study in this paper, which is part of a bigger study investigating non-cognitive characteristics of Korean students at the 4-12 grade levels, aims to identify the influential characteristics that explain students' decision to give up on mathematics learning. We consider seven non-cognitive student characteristics: value, interest, attitudes, external motivation, internal motivation, learning conation and efficacy. Data were collected from 21,485 Korean students, and were analyzed with a logistic regression method using SPSS. The findings show that efficacy was the most significant indicator of students' decision to give up on mathematics learning in all three grade level bands: elementary (4th-6th), middle (7th-9th) and high (10th-12th). In particular, the causal model analysis shows that students who highly value mathematics tend to have stronger internal and external motivation, which bring about stronger interest and learning conation, which in turn lead to positive attitudes and strong efficacy regarding the learning of mathematics. It was further found that while external motivation was a significant indicator of upper grade level students' decision to give up on mathematics learning, it was only a moderate indicator for lower grade level students. The findings of this study provide useful information about which non-cognitive areas need to be focused on, in what grade levels, to help students stay on track and not fall behind in learning mathematics.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1173-1181
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• 2012

In order to suggest the basic resources of mathematics education to the specialized high school, we investigate the attitude of students about mathematics education. Questionnaires survey was carried on 654 students and we use the statistical analysis such as chi-square test, gamma, generalized linear model, Anova, regression. Several result can be derived from the questionnaire analysis. There are differences between the general and specialized high school students in the interest, pre-learning ability etc. The specialized school students think the usefulness of mathematics more importantly, while the general school students think more closely related to their course.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.127-151
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between process variables, personality traits, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and their mathematical creativity and how much these factors affect this creativity. These results show the major factor in mathematical creativity as being the gender difference between the gifted male and female middle school students. This also suggests that the education and living guidance of both gifted male and female students should take a different direction in relation to their gender differences in middle schools. In conclusion, all of the normal intellective and non-intellective factors, as well as home process variables, are the basic major data concerned with the effects of mathematical creativity. So, it is with all of this research that the proof for researching synthetically via a new creative research model can be offered.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.205-224
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• 2016

Nowadays technological instruments are advanced to measure brain waves called EEG. Also, it is important to find some facts that cause students to have mathematic anxiety (MA) and to provide remedy programs to lessen their MA in order to help students cure MA that could contribute to negative self-efficacy toward mathematics and mathematical learning. To find how they change the MA level, a small group of 11 high school students in Suwon city participated for ten weeks at the remedy program based on students' levels of MA diagnosed by MASS instrument (Ko, & Yi, 2011) and proofread by 8 advisors who worked in related research areas. The results showed that the remedy program was effective to lessen students' MA and it should provide a long term period since some negative experiences were accumulated for a long time of his or her past schooling by others such as teachers, peers, and parents. EEG showed that students got better scores on a percent of correct answers and a reaction time and some student' EEG from a group HMA became smaller heights and width in comparison of the other groups.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.21 no.1 s.29
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• pp.33-50
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• 2007

In this study, we made a survey for gifted students of science education center for gifted youth in a university to find their viewpoints about giftedness, need of gifted education, attribution. Using the results of the survey, we interviewed mathematical gifted student, parents, teachers to find their viewpoints about giftedness, need of gifted education, attribution. From this, we found the followings: First, Parents and teachers selected intellectual ability as a most important factor of giftedness. On the other hand, gifted students selected creativity as it. Second, gifted students show different communication ability depending on the education place. Third, mathematical gifted students attributed their problem solving ability to interior cause. On the other hand, parents and teachers of gifted students attributed students' problem solving ability to exterior cause.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.125-148
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to analyze concretely and minutely a primary factor of deciding attitude of learning mathematics of elementary school students, grope a solution for negative attitude of learning mathematics with researching a difference between major factors by achievement in mathematics, and examine a suggestion in forming positive attitude of learning mathematics. The results of this study is as follows. First, elementary school students decided whether they liked or disliked mathematics, depending on not only characteristics of mathematics, but also teacher's teaching mathematics with interest and fun, or teacher's teaching tediously and difficultly. Second, negative attitude toward mathematics exam of elementary school students was influenced by parents' meddling for exam and negative attitude toward result of exam more than uneasiness by exam itself. Third, as private education for elementary school students becomes more popular, the learning mathematics out of school can be an important factor to decide attitude of learning mathematics of students on several sides such as teacher, teaching method, method of presenting task, and so on as much as mathematics class in school, and characteristics of mathematics. Fourth, students demanded silent and concentrative atmosphere in studying to have positive attitude of learning mathematics. Fifth, as the result of examining major factors that form attitude of teaming mathematics of groups by achievement in mathematics, there was considerable difference in each group. Students in a group of ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ disliked parents' meddling and rebuke, but it didn't change greatly their attitude toward mathematics exam. However a group of ‘middle’ showed the greatest uneasiness toward an exam, and they reacted sensitively to parent's rebuke, scolding, learning environment, and so on.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.8
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• pp.209-229
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• 1999

보통 문장제(거리 ${\cdot}$ 속도 문제, 시계 문제, 농도 문제, 개수 세기, 측도 영역)는 초등학교부터 반복하면서 대학수학능력 시험에서는 외적 문제해결력을 측정하는 문장으로 나타난다. 문장제를 해결하는데는 사고가 여러 단계로 이루어져야 한다. 따라서 일반적으로 문장제는 난해하므로 조직적이고 전문적인 학습지도가 이루어져야 한다. 하지만 입시위주의 교육 등 여러 여건상 잘 이루어지지 않고 있는 것이 현실이다. 수학을 잘하는 학생이라도 문장제를 해결하지 못하는 경우가 많다. 본 연구에서는 문장제의 해결의 저해 요인을 완화시킬 수 있는 지도 방안으로서 Polya의 문제해결 전략을 이용하며, 실험반과 비교반의 학습 효과를 비교 분석하여 이를 통하여 효율적인 문장제 지도방안을 연구한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.11
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• pp.201-233
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• 2001

보통 문장제(일량, 거리, 속도 문제, 시계 문제, 농도 문제, 개수 세기, 측도 영역)는 초등학교부터 반복하며 나오며 대학 수학 능력 시험에서는 외적 문제 해결능력으로 측정되기도 한다. 문장제를 해결하는데는 사고가 여러 단계로 이루어져야 한다. 따라서 일반적으로 문장제는 난해하므로, 조직적이고 전문적인 학습지도가 이루어져야 한다. 하지만 입시위주의 교육 등 여러 여건상 잘 이루어지지 않고 있는 것이 현실이다. 본 연구에서는 문장제의 문제 해결에 필요한 해결요소를 발견하고 저해 요인을 없앨 수 있는 지도 방안으로서 소집단 토의학습에 문제해결 전략을 이용하여, 효율적인 문장제 지도 방안을 연구하고 상이한 문제에 접근하는 방법, 문제를 이용하는 방법 등을 토의학습을 통하여 다양한 풀이방법을 해결하면서 이를 통하여 사고력을 신장할 수 있도록 연구한다.