• 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.24 no.2
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• pp.325-344
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate what influences students' preferences on empirical and deductive proofs and find their relations. Although empirical and deductive proofs have been seen as a significant aspect of school mathematics, literatures have indicated that students tend to have a preference for empirical proof when they are convinced a mathematical statement. Several studies highlighted students'views about empirical and deductive proof. However, there are few attempts to find the relations of their views about these two proofs. The study was conducted to 47 students in 7~9 grades in the transition from empirical proof to deductive proof according to their mathematics curriculum. The data was collected on the written questionnaire asking students to choose one between empirical and deductive proofs in verifying that the sum of angles in any triangles is $180^{\circ}$. Further, they were asked to provide explanations for their preferences. Students' responses were coded and these codes were categorized to find the relations. As a result, students' responses could be categorized by 3 factors; accuracy of measurement, representative of triangles, and mathematics principles. First, the preferences on empirical proof were derived from considering the measurement as an accurate method, while conceiving the possibility of errors in measurement derived the preferences on deductive proof. Second, a number of students thought that verifying the statement for three different types of triangles -acute, right, obtuse triangles - in empirical proof was enough to convince the statement, while other students regarded these different types of triangles merely as partial examples of triangles and so they preferred deductive proof. Finally, students preferring empirical proof thought that using mathematical principles such as the properties of alternate or corresponding angles made proof more difficult to understand. Students preferring deductive proof, on the other hand, explained roles of these mathematical principles as verification, explanation, and application to other problems. The results indicated that students' preferences were due to their different perceptions of these common factors.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.165-184
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• 2013

In order to utilize Sphinx Puzzle in shape education or deductive reasoning, a lesson employing Dienes' six-stage theory of learning mathematics was structured to be applied to students of 6th grade of elementary school. 4 students of 6th grade of elementary school, the researcher's current workplace, were selected as subjects. The academic achievement level of 4 subjects range across top to medium, who are generally enthusiastic and hardworking in learning activities. During the 3 lessons, the researcher played role as the guide and observer, recorded observation, collected activity sheet written by subjects, presentation materials, essays on the experience, interview data, and analyzed them to the detail. A task of finding every possible triangle out of pieces of Sphinx Puzzle was given, and until 6 steps of formalization was set, students' attitude to find a better way of mathematical deduction, especially that of operational thinking and deductive thinking, was carefully observed and analyzed.

• School Mathematics
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.283-299
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• 2004

It is a very important objective of mathematical education to lead students to apply mathematics to the problem situations and to solve the problems. Assuming that mathematical modeling is appropriate for such mathematical education objectives, we must emphasize mathematical modeling learning. In this research, we focused what mathematical concepts are learned and what reasoning are applied and used through mathematical modeling. In the process of mathematical modeling, the students used several types of reasoning; deduction, induction and abduction. Although we cannot generalize a fact by a single case study, deduction has been used to confirm whether their model is correct to the real situation and to find solutions by leading mathematical conclusion and induction to experimentally verify whether their model is correct. And abduction has been used to abstract a mathematical model from a real model, to provide interpretation to existing a practical ground for mathematical results, and elicit new mathematical model by modifying a present model.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.221-221
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• 2010

고대의 인도수학은 산스크리트어로 쓰여 있고, 최초의 기하학은 베다문헌으로 경전 속에 포함되어 있으며, 성스런 제단이나 사원을 설계하기위해서 발전하였다. 고대 인도의 많은 수학자들은 힌두교의 성직자들로 일찍이 십진법, 계산법, 방정식, 대수학, 기하학, 삼각법 등의 연구에 공헌하였다. 인도 기하학은 양적이며 계산적이지만 원리를 가지고 문제를 해결하는 특성이 있다. 그러나 고대 그리스 기하학은 공리적이고 연역적으로 전개되는 완전한 학문으로 발전하였다. 고대 인도와 타 문명권의 기하학을 비교하는 것은 오늘날 문제해결을 중시하는 현대과학의 시대에 가치와 의미가 있는 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.25-34
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• 1987

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.647-672
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• 2003

This study sought to determine the impact of the graphing calculator on prospective math-teachers' mathematical thinking while they engaged in the exploratory tasks. To understand students' thinking processes, two groups of three students enrolled in the college of education program participated in the study and their performances were audio-taped and described in the observers' notebooks. The results indicated that the prospective teachers got the clues in recalling the prior memory, adapting the algebraic knowledge to given problems, and finding the patterns related to data, to solve the tasks based on inductive, deductive, and creative thinking. The graphing calculator amplified the speed and accuracy of problem-solving strategies and resulted partly in students' progress to the creative thinking by their concept development.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.14
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• pp.273-295
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• 2001

통계는 연역적 사고를 강조하는 수학의 다른 영역과 달리 귀납적 추론과 직관적 사고를 요구한다. 따라서 학교 수업에서 학생들이 실제적인 상황을 모델링 할 수 있도록 하며, 주어진 상황에서 자료를 올바르게 산출하고 분석 할 수 있도록 적절한 지도 방법이 필요하다. 그렇지만 학교 수업은 대다수 알고리즘 연습 위주의 통계 학습-지도로 통계적 사고 교육이 제대로 이루어지지 못하고 있다. 이로 인해 학생들은 형식적인 통계 처리에는 익숙하지만 통계 교육의 궁극적 목적인 변이성과 자료를 현명하게 다루는 능력이 부족하다. 본고에서는 피상적인 기계적 계산위주의 통계교육에서 실제적인 자료를 수집하고, 이를 적절히 가공 처리하여 정보의 가치를 높일 수 있는 통계 지도 방향을 탐색해 보고자 한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.8
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• pp.45-63
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• 1999

학교 수학의 궁극적인 목표는 “수학적 능력과 태도를 육성하는데 있다.” 이러한 목표를 달성하기 위해서는 수학의 기본적인 지식과 기능을 습득하는 일과 수학적으로 사고하는 능력을 기르는 일이 뒷받침되어야 할 것이다. 수학적 사고는 학교수학에서 지도되는 내용 그 자체에 관련된 것이 아니라 이들 수학을 수학내용을 이해하고 지식으로 획득하는 과정에서 행하여지는 수학적인 활동과 관련이 있다고 하겠다. 본고에서는 수학적인 활동의 방법적인 측면에서 귀납 추론, 연역 추론, 유비 추론에 대해서 개괄적으로 알아보고, 귀납 추론의 필요성 및 특성과 구체적인 적용 사례에 대해서 알아보고자 한다.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.41-52
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• 2010

Ancient Indian mathematical works, all composed in Sanskrit, usually consisted of a section of sturas in which a set of rules or problems were stated with great economy in verse in order to aid memorization by a student. And rules or problems of the mathematics were transmitted both orally and in manuscript form.Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the decimal number system, arithmetic, equations, algebra, geometry and trigonometry. And many Indian mathematicians were appearing one after another in Ancient. This paper is a comparative study of mathematics developments in ancient India and the other ancient civilizations. We have found that the Indian mathematics is quantitative, computational and algorithmic by the principles, but the ancient Greece is axiomatic and deductive mathematics in character. Ancient India and the other ancient civilizations mathematics should be unified to give impetus to further development of mathematics education in future times.