• School Mathematics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.401-420
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• 2003

We have many problems in the teaching and learning of proof, especially in the demonstrative geometry of middle school mathematics introducing the proof for the first time. Above all, it is the serious problem that many students do not understand the meaning of proof. In this paper we intend to show that teaching the meaning of proof in terms of historic-genetic approach will be a method to improve the way of teaching proof. We investigate the development of proof which goes through three stages such as experimental, intuitional, and scientific stage as well as the development of geometry up to the completion of Euclid's Elements as Bran-ford set out, and analyze the teaching process for the purpose of looking for the way of improving the way of teaching proof through the historic-genetic approach. We conducted lessons about the angle-sum property of triangle in accordance with these three stages to the students of seventh grade. We show that the students will understand the meaning of proof meaningfully and properly through the historic-genetic approach.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.585-599
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 학교수학에서 증명지도의 문제점을 정당화의 측면에서 분석하고, 정당화의 한 방법으로서 확률론적 정당화를 제시하며, 학교수학에서 정당화 지도의 교육적 가치, 정당화 지도의 방향, 정당화 지도의 예와 지도 방법에 대해 논의한다. 이러한 논의에 근거하여 학교수학에서의 정당화 지도의 필요성 및 가능성에 관하여 살펴본다. 본 연구에서 '증명'은 고전적인 의미에서의 증명, 즉 엄밀한(rigorous) 증명, 수학적(mathematical) 증명이고, '정당화'는 기존의 수학적 증명 개념은 물론, 다양한 논증 기법을 포함하는 넓은 의미이다.

• School Mathematics
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.469-493
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is find the relation between students' concept and types of proof construction. For this, four undergraduate students majored in mathematics education were evaluated to examine how they understand mathematical concepts and apply their concepts to their proving. Investigating students' proof with their concepts would be important to find implications for how students have to understand formal concepts to success in proving. The participants' proof productions were classified into syntactic proof productions and semantic proof productions. By comparing syntactic provers and semantic provers, we could reveal that the approaches to find idea for proof were different for two groups. The syntactic provers utilized procedural knowledges which had been accumulated from their proving experiences. On the other hand, the semantic provers made use of their concept images to understand why the given statements were true and to get a key idea for proof during this process. The distinctions of approaches to proving between two groups were related to students' concepts. Both two types of provers had accurate formal concepts. But the syntactic provers also knew how they applied formal concepts in proving. On the other hand, the semantic provers had concept images which contained the details and meaning of formal concept well. So they were able to use their concept images to get an idea of proving and to express their idea in formal mathematical language. This study leads us to two suggestions for helping students prove. First, undergraduate students should develop their concept images which contain meanings and details of formal concepts in order to produce a meaningful proof. Second, formal concepts with procedural knowledge could be essential to develop informal reasoning into mathematical proof.

• School Mathematics
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.625-648
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• 2008

We collected the data through the following process. 36 third-grade middle school students are selected, and we conducted ex-ante interviews for researching how they understand the nature of proof. Based on the results of survey, then we chose two students we took a lesson with the Branford's among the 36 samples. After sampling, historic-genetic geometry education, inspected carefully whether the Branford's method helps the students.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.54-59
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• 2010

Special-purpose microcontrollers PLCs have been widely used in the area of industrial automation. For the research of analysis and verification for PLC programs, first of all we have to specify formal sematics of PLC programming languages. This paper defines formally the operational semantics of LD language. After we transform the graphical language LD into its textual representation Symbolic LD, we give semantics of Symbolic LD since LD language is a graphical language. This paper defines the natural sematics of Symbolic LD and formalizes it in Coq proof assistant.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.143-156
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• 2008

In this study, we divided the teaching and learning of proof into three steps in the demonstrative geometry of the middle school mathematics. And then we surveyed the student's difficulties in the teaching and learning of proof by using of questionnaire. Results of this survey suggest that students cannot only understand the meaning of proof in the teaching and learning of proof but also they cannot deduce simple mathematical reasoning as judgement for the truth of propositions. Moreover, they cannot follow the hypothesis to a conclusion of the proposition It results from the fact that students cannot understand clearly the meaning and the role of hypotheses and conclusions of propositions. So we need to focus more on teaching students about the meaning and role of hypotheses and conclusions of propositions.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.12
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• pp.3127-3137
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• 1998

COBRA 표준명세는 표준을 만족하는 구현에서 제공해야 할 기능뿐만 아니라 서비스 제공 모듈의 사용자 인터페이스도 IDL을 사용하여 엄격하게 정의하고 있다. CORBA 표준에 대한 확신과 신뢰성을 가지기 위해서는 IDL(Interface Definition Language)로 기술된 표준명세를 정형화하고 수학적으로 엄격히 증명할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 CORBA 표준을 정형적으로 명세하고 검증할 방법을 제시한다. 먼저 표준모듈을 Larch/CORBA IDL(LCB)를 사용하여 정형적으로 명세하고, LCB의 의미론에 준하여 LCB 명세를 LSL(Larch Shared language)로 변환한다. 변환한 LCB 명세와 LSL 증명논리를 사용하여 특성을 수학적으로 증명한다. 변환기반의 LCB 의미론을 정립하여 제안한 방법의 이론적 바탕을 마련하고 CORBA 이름서비스명세에 실제 적용하여 그 효용성을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.33-48
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• 2007

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.19 no.3 s.23
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• pp.485-502
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• 2005

한 가지 문제에 대한 다양한 풀이 방법을 탐색하는 것은 수학적 대상의 성질을 발명, 일반화하는 것 뿐만 아니라, 학생들의 지적인 유창성 및 유연성 계발, 수학에 대한 심미적 가치의 함양을 위한 의미 있는 교수학적 경험을 제공할 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 고등학교 '미분과 적분'에 제시된 사인의 덧셈정리에 대한 다양한 증명 방법을 제시하고, 이를 분석하여 수학교수학적으로 의미로운 시사점을 도출하였다. 이를 통해, 사인의 덧셈정리에 대한 새로운 증명 방법의 탐색, 사인의 덧셈정리의 수학교수학적 활용의 다양한 가능성을 모색할 수 있는 기초자료를 제공할 것이며, 제시된 증명 방법들은 '미분과 적분'의 지도에서 심화학습 자료로도 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.185-206
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• 2009

In the study, I conducted the teaching experiment designed to instruct proof to four 7th grade students by utilizing the analysis method. As the results of this study I could identified that it is effective to teach and learn to find proof methods using the analysis. The results of the study showed that four 7th grade students succeeded in finding the proof methods by utilizing the analysis and representing the proof after 15 hours of the teaching experiment. In addition to the difficulties that students faced in learning proof utilizing the analysis were related to the search for the light conditions for triangles to be congruent, symbolic representation of the proof methods, reinterpretation of drawings given in the proof problems.