• 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.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.12
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• pp.185-200
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• 2001

증명은 수학에서 기초적이고도 중요한 주제이다. 추측을 만들어내고 자신에게는 물론 타인에게까지 그 추측을 정리로서 확신시키는 활동은 수학활동에서의 핵심이라고 할 수 있다. 그러나 현재의 증명 학습지도에서는 학생들의 수준보다는 높은 증명 발달단계를 제시하고 있다는 보고와 함께 기존의 지도방법의 개선책을 요구하고 있다. 따라서 본고에서는 몇 가지 증명의 발달 단계를 정리해 보고 Balacheff의 증명 4단계를 토대로 하여 증명활동을 점진적인 구성으로 제시한다.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.58 no.2
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• pp.161-185
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• 2019

This study aims to examine pre- and in-service mathematics teachers' reasoning and how they justify their reasoning. For this purpose, we developed a set of mathematical tasks that are based on mathematical contents for middle grade students and conducted the survey to pre- and in-service teachers in Korea. Twenty-five pre-service teachers and 8 in-service teachers participated in the survey. The findings from the data analysis suggested as follows: a) the pre- and in-service mathematics teachers seemed to be very dependent of the manipulation of algebraic expressions so that they attempt to justify only by means of procedures such as known algorithms, rules, facts, etc., rather than trying to find out a mathematical structure in the first instance, b) the proof that teachers produced did not satisfy the generality when they attempted to justify using by other ways than the algebraic manipulation, c) the teachers appeared to rely on using formulas for finding patters and justifying their reasoning, d) a considerable number of the teachers seemed to stay at level 2 in terms of the proof production level, and e) more than 3/4 of the participating teachers appeared to have difficulty in mathematical reasoning and proof production particularly when faced completely new mathematical tasks.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.327-344
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• 2006

This study examined the proof levels and understanding of constituents of proving by three mathematically gifted 6th grade korean students, who belonged to the highest 1% in elementary school, through observation and interviews on the problem-solving process in relation to constructing a rectangle of which area equals the sum of two other rectangles. We assigned the students with Clairaut's geometric problems and analyzed their proof levels and their difficulties in thinking related to the understanding of constituents of proving. Analysis of data was made based on the proof level suggested by Waring (2000) and the constituents of proving presented by Galbraith(1981), Dreyfus & Hadas(1987), Seo(1999). As a result, we found out that the students recognized the meaning and necessity of proof, and they peformed some geometric proofs if only they had teacher's proper intervention.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.15
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• pp.141-146
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• 2003

중학교 기하교육의 목적은 학생들의 수학적인 상황을 보는 기하학적인 직관과 논리적 추론능력의 향상이다. 그러나 이 두 가지 모두 만족스럽지 못한 실정이다. 본 고에서는 중학교 기하교육의 문제를 직관기하와 형식기하의 단절이라는 보고, 직관기하에서 증명의 학습요소를 미리 학습하여 직관기하와 형식기하를 연결하자는 대안을 제시한다. 이를 위해 7-나 교과서의 증명요소를 분석하고자 하였다. 관련문헌을 검토하여 7가지 증명의 학습요소를 선정한 후, 교과서를 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 기호화를 제외한 다른 증명의 학습요소는 매우 빈약한 것으로 나타났다. 직관기하 영역에 대한 교과서 구성이 개선될 필요가 있음을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1773-1778
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• 2006

This paper propose the method of constructing the Digital Logic Systems based on the Improved Automatic Theorem Proving Techniques(IATP) over Finite Fields. The proposed method is as following. First, we discuss the background and the important mathematical properties for Finite Fields. Also, we discuss the concepts of the Automatic Theorem Proving Techniques(ATP) including the syntactic method and semantic method, and discuss the basic properties for the Alf. In this step, we define several definitions of the IAIP, Table Pseudo Function Tab and Equal. Next, we propose the T-gate as Building Block(BB) and describe the mathematical representation for the notation of T-gate. Then we discuss the important properties for the T-gate. Also, we propose the several relationships that are Identity relationship, Constant relationship, Tautology relationship and Mod R cyclic relationship. Then we propose Mod R negation gate and the manipulation of the don't care conditions. Finally, we propose the algorithm for the constructing the method of the digital logic systems over finite fields. The proposed method is more efficiency and regularity than my other earlier methods. Thet we prospect the future research and prospects.

• School Mathematics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.297-313
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential and to examine the effect of narrative, as an alternative approach to teach formal proof in more easier and comprehensible way. Identifying the key elements of narrative in proof, we constructed a narrative that derives the equation of function translation. We examined the effect of teaching through the narrative, in comparison with teaching the corresponding proof, on low-achieving students' instrumental understanding and relational understanding of function translation. Since we found no statistically significant differences between the experimental and the comparison group, this study could not conclude that teaching through the narrative was more effective than teaching the corresponding proof. But there were some qualitative differences in the relational understanding responses and the evaluation of the teaching between two groups. These findings suggested some potential of narratives that complement the formal proof.

• School Mathematics
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.59-90
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• 2004

This study has been established with two purposes. The first one is to development the learning-teaching model for enhancing students' creative proof capacities in the domain of demonstrative geometry as subject content. The second one is to aim at experimentally testing its effectiveness. First, we develop the learning-teaching model for enhancing students' proof capacities. This model is named the generative-convergent model based instruction. It consists of the following components: warming-up activities, generative activities, convergent activities, reflective discussion, other high quality resources etc. Second, to investigate the effects of the generative-convergent model based instruction, 160 8th-grade students are selected and are assigned to experimental and control groups. We focused that the generative-convergent model based instruction would be more effective than the traditional teaching method for improving middle school students' proof-writing capacities and error remediation. In conclusion, the generative-convergent model based instruction would be useful for improving middle grade students' proof-writing capacities. We suggest the following: first, it is required to refine the generative-convergent model for enhancing proof-problem solving capacities; second, it is also required to develop teaching materials in the generative-convergent model based instruction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.409-416
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• 2004

동적 공급사슬망은 복잡하고 다양한 이해관계를 가진 기업들로 구성되어 있다. 다수의 구매자로부터 주문 의뢰가 동시다발적으로 발생하므로 하위 구성원들은 경쟁적 관계에 놓이게 된다. 그러므로 최적의 공급사슬구성을 위해서는 수평적 경쟁 관계를 고려하여 구성주체들간의 협력관계를 통해 이를 해결하여야 한다. 지금까지의 스케줄링 문제에서는 상위의 구성원이 하위 구성원들을 일방적으로 선택하는 의사결정이 이루어졌으나 본 문제에서는 구성원간의 협력관계에서 에이전트를 통한 다자간 협상을 통해 공급사슬 전체의 최적화를 구성하는 방법론을 제시한다. 본 협상방법론은 단일기계에서 상이한 납기일, 조기생산(earliness), 지연생산(tardiness)을 동시에 고려하였으며 전체 공급사슬의 평균절대편차(Mean Absolute Deviation)의 최소화를 목적으로 하고 있다. 본 협상방법론의 효과성을 증명하기 위해 분지한계법(Branch & Bound)과 비교하고, 알고리즘 구현을 통해 구매자 협상방법론의 최적화 여부를 실험을 통해 증명하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.781-784
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• 2000

전자중매 프로토콜(Match-making protocol)은 남녀간의 그룹미팅에서 커플을 구성하거나 특정 그룹 내에서 팀을 구성하기 위한 프로토콜이다. 본 연구에서는 두 사람이 서로 상대방을 선택했을 때에만 커플로 인정된다고 하는 규칙을 사용할 때 커플이 성립되었음을 확인하고 이를 증명하기 위한 안전하고 효율적인 프로토콜을 설계하였다. 이를 구현하기 위한 하부 프로토콜로서 두개의 이산대수 원소가 같은 지수값을 가지는지 여부를 증명하는 방법과 이를 이용하여 두개의 EIGamal 암호문이 제공되었을 때 복호화를 하지 않고도 평문 메시지가 일치하는지 여부를 확인하고 증명할 수 있는 프로토콜을 제시하고 이를 전자중매 프로토콜 설계에 이용하였다. 이러한 방법은 전자중매 프로토콜뿐만 아니라 실생활에서 요구되는 다양한 문제들을 해결하는 방법론으로 이용될 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.