• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.243-260
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• 2009

Many students have difficulty studying mathematics because of its unique characteristics and the numbers of underachievers in mathematics are increasing, not decreasing, even though great teaching-learning methods have been provided. The purpose of this research is to examine if instruction using mind-map in mathematical studies has positive effects on achievement and attitudes of underachievers in mathematics. For this, mathematics learning ability test before instruction, survey of attitudes toward mathematics before and after instruction and mathematics learning ability test before and after instruction were performed for 32 underachievers in two classes of first grade in C high school in South Chung cheong Province. The positive effects of instruction using mind-map in mathematical studies on academic achievements and attitudes of underachievers were expected, but results indicate that there is no significant effect. However, results indicate that the use of mind-map in mathematics instruction has positive effects partially on the changes of learning attitudes. Therefore, the characteristics of underachievers in mathematics should be understood first, mind-map according to them should be applied and students should have time to properly perceive and draw mind-map skillfully. In teachers' professional knowledge of mind-map and consideration for students, when follow-up researches and systematic instruction proceed together for a long period time, the desired results can be realized.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.315-335
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• 2008

This study is to recognize importance of casing anxiety on mathematics for underachievers and to examine a plan to solve a problem with anxiety, by analyzing factors which make underachievers anxious on the mathematics. First, we analyze factors which make mathematical underachievers anxious on the mathematics. Second, we compare and analyze a level of anxiety on the mathematics and factors which cause anxiety on the mathematics according to their grade and gender. This study's participants were 308 mathematical underachievers at 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, studying at six different elementary schools in three different areas. The results of factors which make mathematical underachievers anxious on the mathematics obtained from the survey are as follows. First, in the top-category factor, mathematical underachievers are influenced by following factors in order, which are a mathematic subject, learner's attitude, environment, and a teacher. Second, in the factor of making students anxious on the mathematics according tn their grade, although the mathematic anxiety of students at 6th grade is higher than students at 4th and 5th grade, in the anxiety differences between the different grades. Third, in the factors which make the students anxious on the mathematics according to their gender, female students show more anxiety than male students. In summary, an anxiety of the underachievers at the elementary schools are different in the top and sub-category factor, according to their grades and their gender. It is shown that the underachievers feel more anxiety compared to normal elementary schools, and therefore the anxiety on the mathematics is one of the causes of under-achievement of the mathematics.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.9
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• pp.73-81
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• 1999

7차 교육과정을 시행에 앞서, 현재 초등학생들이 수학을 어떻게 생각하고 있으며, 어 떤 이유로 수학에서 학습 부진을 느낄까? 라는 문제의식을 갖게 되었다. 그래서 정규교육의 첫 단계인 초등학교 수학교과에 대한 인식 및 학습 부진에 관한 연구를 시행하고자 했다. 본 연구대상은 대전 ${\cdot}$ 충남 지역에 소재하고 있는 6개 초등학교 6개 반을 선정하여 발달사고과정에서 자신의 생각을 분명하게 나타낼 수 있는 4학년에서 6학년을 연구대상으로 선정하여 교과요인에 대한 설문조사를 하였다. 본 연구는 수학교과에 대해초등학생들이 어떤 생각을 가지고 있고, 어떤 교과요인을 학습하는데 어려움을 느끼는지를 알아봄으로써, 본 연구 결과를 기초로 중학생 ${\cdot}$ 고등학생 ${\cdot}$ 대학생들까지 연속하여 수학교과에 대한 인식을 조사하고 함이며, 새롭게 시행될 7차 교육과정에서의 수학교과 구성면과 수학 학습 및 교수 방법론에 보다 바람직하고 효과적인 시사점을 제공하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.209-227
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• 2006

From this research, we want to get results that have interested the difference from character of students with the motivation of the learning, confidence and habit through the activity oriented class. When teacher teach students of the learning disability with participant class and activity class, they have encouraged and have positive disposition about mathematics. Therefore teachers should try to give chance doing in mathematics class to students with learning disability.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.9
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• pp.219-226
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• 1999

실업계 고등학교출신, 직장을 다니다 뒤늦게 진학한 학생, 수학성적 때문에 야간학과를 택한 학생들의 수학학습능력이 대학수학을 공부하기에는 부족함을 그들의 의견과 기초학습능력 검사와 수업을 통해 확인해보고 그들을 위한 수업지도 방법과 심리적 치료법을 곁들여 좋은 수업환경을 만들고 수업에 대한 반응으로부터 그들만을 위한 방법을 개발하고 수준에 맞는 교재를 만들어 ‘99학년도 2학기부터 시행에 본다음 종합적인 분석을 하여 계속된 현장연구 결과와 함께 학습부진 학생을 위한 대학수학 수업모델을 만든다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.26 no.4 s.44
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• pp.628-649
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• 1993

This study was conducted to investigate the factors related to the poor school performance of the elementary school children. Two schools in Taegu, one in the affluent area and the other in the poor area, were selected and a total of 175 children whose school performance was within low 10 percentile (poor performers) and 97 children whose school performance were within high 5 percentile (good performers) in each class of 2nd, 4th and 6th grades were tested for the physical health, behavioral problem and family background. Each child had gone through a battery of tests including visual and hearing acuity, anthropometry (body weight, height, head circumference), intelligence (Kodae Stanford-Binet test), test anxiety (TAI-K), neurologic examination by a developmental pediatrician and heavy metal content (Pb, Cd, Zn) in hair by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. A questionnaire was administered to the mothers for prenatal and prenatal courses of the child, family environment, child's developmental history, and child's behavioral and learning problems. Another questionnaire was administered to the teachers of the children for the child's family background, arithmatic & language abilities and behavioral problem. The poor school performance had a significant correlation with male gender, high birth order, broken home, low educational and occupational levels of parents, visual problem, high test anxiety score, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), poor physical growth (weight, height, head circumference) and low I.Q. score. The factors that had a significant correlation with the poor school performance in multiple logistic regression analysis were child's birth order (odds ratio=2.06), male gender(odds ratio=5.91), broken home(odds ratio=9.29), test anxiety score(odds ratio=1.07), ADHD (odds ratio=9.67), I.Q. score (odds ratio=0.85) and height less than Korean standard mean-1S.D.(odds ratio=11.12). The heavy metal contents in hair did not show any significant correlation with poor school performance. However the lead and cadmium contents were high in males than in females. The lead content was negatively correlated with child's grade(P<0.05) and zinc was positively correlated with grade (P<0.05). among the factors that showed a significant correlation with the poor school performance, high birth order, short stature and ADHD may be modified by a good family planning, good feeding practice for infant and child, and early detection and treatment of ADHD. Also, teacher and parents should restrain themselves from inducing excessive test anxiety by forcing the child to study and over-expecting beyond the child's intellectual capability.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.57-76
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• 2017

Since the 1990s, Korea has been developing various policies and materials for the improvement of basic learning abilities. In this study, the cases of policies for underachievers in Korea and the US were compared and analyzed the programs for mathematics underachievers in elementary school with Chuncheon office of education and Seattle public schools. All of them started from the point of relief of underachievers, but they differed in the process of operating them specifically. This study suggests the followings. First, active utilization of vacation programs to solve problems such as low-income meal service, prevention of stigma effects, securing teacher's instruction time, teacher-instructor cooperation. Second, the necessity of detailed activity-centered textbooks that underachievers can explore with interest in mathematics learning and easy to use by teachers. Third, specific cooperation for inducing interest of their own children's learning and forming close ties between parents and teachers. Fourth, program analysis by a professional evaluation group to improve the quality of underachiever program.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.1-21
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• 2019

Mathematics is one of the subjects in which learners seriously experience under-achievements in school education. Middle school level mathematics especially plays such a role as a bridge between elementary level informal mathematics and high school level formal mathematics that learners' under-achievements in the middle school level mathematics may yield more serious under-achievements later. Therefore it is crucial to prevent learners' later under-achievements that we analyze the status of under achievements including analysing various under-achievers' errors in the middle school level mathematics. From this point of view, we analysed errors of mathematics under-achievers in understanding the concept of the square root of positive numbers and related calculations in this paper. As the results of our research, we found some unexpected errors of 'some mathematics under-achievers regarding the mathematical symbol ${\surd}$ of square root as a parenthesis ( ), and others interpret $x=-2{\pm}{\sqrt{10}}$ as x=-2 or ${\pm}{\sqrt{10}}$.' that suggest the necessity of more various and in-depth discussions and researches of analysis on learners' errors and misconceptions in all areas of school mathematics.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.01a
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• pp.173-178
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• 2008

7차 교육과정에서 컴퓨터 교육이 정식교과로 시작된 이래 올바르게 교과교육으로 정착되어 가고 있는가에 대한 현황 파악에 대한 연구가 부족하다. 그 중에서 특히 학교교육에서 중요시하는 부진아 발생현황에 대해 파악하여 이의 발생 원인을 분석하여 대처 방안을 수립하는 것은 매우 중요한 사항이다. 향후 컴퓨터 교육이 개정교육과정에서 정식교과로 정착되기 위해서는 교과의 학습 부진아에 대한 연구와 개선 방안에 대한 연구가 필연적이라 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 7차 교육과정의 시작 이래 진행되어 온 부진아의 발생현황과 원인을 분석하였다.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.9-21
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• 2013

The purpose of this paper is to develop and implement a mobile application system to improve arithmetical operations for low achievers. The proposed system has the following characteristics. First, the system provides individual study for low achievers based on their different study levels. Second, instant feedback can be provided to students for maintaining study motivation. Third, the system enables students to study arithmetical operations in persistent and repetitive manner. This is due to that, in the literature, arithmetical operation capacity can be increased by persistent and repetitive practices. The proposed system is applied to mathematics low achievers and the following results are obtained. First, interests and intrinsic motivation are increased through use of the proposed system. Second, arithmetical operation speed is increased. Also, accuracy of arithmetical operation is improved. Thus, it is concluded that arithmetical operation capacity of low achievers is improved using the proposed system.