• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.123-137
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• 2014

In this paper, the format of the Korean 2011 & the Japan 2008 elementary school mathematics curriculum are compared especially centered on elements, areas, objectives, and lesson time numbers. Through this comparison, suggestions can be obtained as follows. First, grade-group system which does not meet the actual elementary mathematics education needs to be reconsidered. Second, the area name 'number and operation' needs to be reduced into the area name 'number and calculation'. Third, using the area name 'pattern' needs to be reconsidered. Fourth, using the area name 'probability' needs to be reconsidered. If 'possibility' which some event occurs is seen as ratio, it can be contained area 'quantity relationship'. Fifth, containing the nature of mathematics into the school mathematics objectives needs to be reconsidered. Sixth, it is necessary to enhance the phase of mathematics in elementary education.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.29-44
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• 2014

The newly revised mathematics curriculum in 2009 mentioned the mathematics specified classroom. All schools in the secondary school will implement Mathmatics Subject Class System by 2014. Expecing to extend the mathematics specified classroom to the elementary school, this study explores the direction how to configurate and use it. On the ground of previous research on mathematics laboratory and mathematics subject class system, this study makes questionnaire and survey recognition and opinions about mathematics room in the elementary school with elementary school teachers. Based on the result of analysis of questionnaire, this study suggests math cultural experience room, room for mathematical recreation, mathematics specified classroom as the main functions of elementary mathematics room, and utilization of mathematics room to perform such functions. This study provides suggestions about elementary mathematics room differentiated from mathematics subject class system in the secondary school.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.409-423
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to probe into student teachers' understanding of mathematics content knowledge and to identify the features of knowledge which is required to be emphasized in the elementary teacher education. For this, student teachers attending teacher preparation courses in Korea and Hong Kong were interviewed on tasks encompassing the 'what', 'why' and 'how' aspects of elementary mathematics. It was found that for the student teachers in the sample, their understanding of the concepts behind elementary mathematical topics was not very thorough. They were unable to retrieve the advanced mathematics that they learned in their advanced mathematics courses. It is suggested that for student teachers in mathematics, it is essential that the advanced mathematics they learn be explicitly related to the elementary mathematics they have learned in school.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.649-666
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a teaching mathematics anxiety scale for elementary teachers in South Korea. The sample consisted of 150 elementary teachers in 22 elementary schools in Seoul. A total of 21 items were developed and examined for the internal consistence. The results showed that the proposed scale was appropriate to represent the teaching mathematics anxiety of elementary teachers.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.93-117
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• 2019

Considering precedent studies in which research subjects are mainly confined to secondary school students or higher grade students of elementary schools, we can notice that there has been implicit agreement that instruction of mathematical modeling is quite difficult to lower grade students of elementary schools. Compared to this tendency, this study aims to examine the possibility of instruction of mathematical modeling for all of school ages, and more specifically, the applicability of mathematical modeling tasks to lower graders. To do this, we developed a mathematical modeling task proper to cognitive characteristics of lower graders and applied this task to the second graders. Based on the research results by lesson observation and the teacher's reflection, some didactical suggestions were induced for teaching the lower grade elementary school students mathematical modeling.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-2
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• 1998

우리 겨레가 현대식 학교를 설립하고 학교 교과로써 수학을 가르치기 시작한지도 올해로 115년이 된다. 1883년 덕원읍민이 설립한 원산학교는 공통과목으로 산수를 가르쳤다(박한식, 1991, p. 8). 1895년에는 국립으로 한성사범학교부속소학교를 세웠고 또 칙령으로 소학교령을 공포하여 초등수학교육의 제도적 기반을 마련하였다(박한식, 1991, p. 12). 1905년까지 10년 사이에 전국에 세운 공립소학교만 60여 개교나 되었다(박한식, 1991, p. 15). 이들 소학교에서는 모두 초등수학(산술)을 필수과목으로 가르쳤다. 이렇게 우리나라에 도입된 학교 교육으로서의 초등수학교육은 격변하는 역사의 소용돌이 속에서도 끊어지지 않고 이어졌다.(중략)

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.371-394
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to understand the public education system in Korea, that features many pre-taught students, and to figure out how elementary school teachers teach them. To accomplish this study, 204 elementary school teachers in Seoul participated in a survey and the frequency and percentage were made. In addition, to add more depth to this study 5 elementary school teachers had several interviews. We obtained the following results. First, elementary school teachers generally think that the situation with many pre-taught students have had a bad effect on public education and pre-taught students are drilled but cannot understand what they have learnt. They also answered that they have low morale when teaching pre-taught students. Second, a large number of elementary school teachers think the situation with many of the pre-taught students does not help the public math education system, which influences the teachers' teaching style. Teachers who answered negative on pre-taught students are running their math classes focusing on understanding math concepts and activities. On the other hand, few teachers who answered positive on pre-taught students did not care about the situation with many pre-taught students.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.83-94
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• 2019

Current mathematics curriculum of South Korea suggests that students learn mathematics in school with calculators except that the aim of the math lessons is to achieve calculation skills, but we can't be sure that elementary school students use calculators in math lessons of school. Actually we don't have enough data to identify how many elementary school students use calculators in math lessons. The aims of this study are to compare the ratio of elementary school students using calculators in math lessons of school between 20 countries and to analyse the relation between using calculators in math lessons and the achievements of math through $4^{th}$ grade mathematics test of TIMSS 2015. The results of this study are two. One is that generally $4^{th}$ grade students did not use calculators in math lessons. The other result is that generally there is no relation between using calculators in math lessons and the achievements of the math test through $4^{th}$ grade mathematics test of TIMSS 2015. Only in Hong Kong SAR, students without using calculators have higher achievements than students using calculators. In England and USA, students using calculators have higher achievements than students without using calculators. Finally, researcher in this study suggests some implications on using calculator in elementary schools.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.10
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• pp.19-30
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• 2000

초등학교 학생들의 창의성 신장은 수학 교수-학습 과정에서 꼭 고려해야 할 목표들 중의 하나이다. 창의성 신장을 위한 많은 시도들이 있었지만, 창의성 신장을 위한 학습자료들은아직 많은 연구 문제들을 남기고 있다. 본 연구에서는 초등학교 고학년 영재 아동들의 창의성 신장을 위해 100시간 분량으로 개발된 학습 프로그램을 소개하고, 개발된 자료들을 초등학교 교수-학습에 투입하여 얻은 긍정적인 결과들을 제시할 것이다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.18 no.1 s.18
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• pp.45-60
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• 2004

수학텍스트의 한 부분인 식은 일상 언어, 시각적 표현, 상징 등의 여러 기호와 함께 학생들에게 다양한 수학을 경험을 제공한다. 그러나 이러한 수학텍스트의 다양성은 수학시험 채점시 4+3인가, 4+3=7인가 혹은 부분점수를 줄 것인가의 이슈로서 변질되어 등장한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 초등학교에서 다루는 식의 의미, 초등학교 아동에게 지도되는 식의 형태, 초등학교 1학년 아동의 식에 대한 이해, 초등학교 교사들의 식에 대한 이해 형태를 서울시 소재 한 초등학교의 1학년 담임교사 9명과 1학년 1 개 학급에 속한 아동과의 면담 및 설문 조사를 통하여 알아보았다. 아울러 제언에서는 수학텍스트의 한 부분인 식의 실제 교육현장에서 어떻게 반영되고 있는가에 대한 탐색을 통하여 식의 의미를 올바르게 전하기 위한 지도 방법, 교사 인식에 대한 방향을 제시하였다.