• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.39-56
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• 2005

This paper provides an analysis of a survey on high achieving students' under-standing of continuity of function. The purposes of the survey in this paper were to identify high achieving students' concept images of continuity of function in the way of Tall & Vinner(1981). The students' individual written answers were collected and task-based, semi-structured individual interviews with 5 students were videotaped. Students were asked to explain their under-standing or reasoning about continuity of function. Five types of the concept images were identified in the analysis. Obvious discrepancy of results between this study and Tall & Vinner(1981)'s were pointed out. It is very likely that the differences in results drawn in both studies are results of the different orientations of the textbooks in terms of their degree of emphasis on the concept definition of continuity of function.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.753-762
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• 1998

This Paper reports results of investigating the relationship between students' perfoonance and mathematics imtructiooal system in understanding of the function concept. A written examination measuring calcullli students' understanding of the fimction concept was administered to two groups of students whose educatiooal oockground were different. One group consists of students who completed a pre-calculus course in Korea and the other group completed the same course in the United States. This study investigates how students in two groups acquire an understanding of major aspects of the function concept and provided interesting insights regarding the different background and belief related to their performance. Follow-up interviews were conducted to identify possible explanations for the different performance of the two groups in understanding the function concepts. Results indicate that the differences came from the educational environment and individual belief.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.353-370
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• 2012

Since the 7th revision of national mathematics curriculum, it has been recommended that the concept of function be introduced based on the dependent relation between variables. The 2009 revision of national mathematics curriculum shares this way of conceptualizing function. In this context, this study analyzes the effect of this revision of the mathematics curriculum on middle school students' conceptualization of function. To be specific, this study investigates the characteristics of students' conceptualization of function through task-based in-depth interviews. It also investigates how teachers introduce function through interview. The analysis show that the middle school students had a lack of understanding about dependent relation in function. The teachers also had difficulties in teaching concept of function based on dependent relation. In the conclusion, this study makes some suggestions for teaching the function in middle school classes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.331-333
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 퍼지집합의 소속함수에 대한 가중치 함수를 제안한다. 제안하는 가중치 함수는 퍼지집합의 소속함수에 곱해지는 형태로서 적용되어지며, 이것은 소속함수에 대한 사용자의 선호도를 의미한다. 제안하는 가중치 함수의 개념은 기본적으로 소속함수를 사용하는 어떤 퍼지 집합의 응용에서도 적용될 수 있을 것으로 보이나, 본 논문에서는 그 중 한가지 경우로 비퍼지화 방법을 적용 대상으로 선택하였다. 제안하는 가중치 함수가 비퍼지화 방법에 있어서 가지는 의미를 보이며, 기존의 비퍼지화 방법들에서 이러한 가중치 함수의 개념이 어떻게 적용되어 왔는지를 보인다. 또한 기존의 비퍼지화 방법들이 개녀멩 적용되지 않은 형태의 가중치 함수를 선택하여, 비퍼지화 방법에 특정 가중치 함수를 적용하였을 때의 특성 변화를 보인다. 이러한 일반적인 형태의 가중치 함수를 퍼지집합의 소속함수에 적용함으로서, 다양한 형태의 선호도를 퍼지집합의 형태에 반영할 수 있을 것으로 보인다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.199-223
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate how first and second graders in middle school take in integrated understanding about the concept of function. The data was collected through the questionnaire conducted by the first and second-year students at A, B middle school in Cheongju. The questionnaire consisted of 14 questions related to the extent of understanding a concept of function, the ability to express function and to translate function. The results are summarized as follows. First, the percentage of correct answer made a difference according to the types of representation. Questions leading students to translate a task into a table or an equation showed quite high correct response rates. However, questions asking students to translate a task into graphs showed high incorrect responses. Second, the result shows that students have the different viewpoints depending on their grades when they have to determine whether the suggested situation belongs to function. The first-year students tended to consider function as the concept of 'definition'. On the other hand, the second-year students emphasized 'equation' of function. Finally, only a few students can distinguish the various situations and representations into the definition of function. This result shows that students didn't get the integrated understanding of the concept of function.

• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.3
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• pp.27-51
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• 2000

이글의 기본적인 목적은 2치를 포함한 다치 논리 체계들간의 관계를 검토하는 데 있다. 이를 위하여 여기서는 명제를 대상으로 한 형식 의미 해석체계들 간에 고러해야 할 의미론적 확장 개념을 분명히 하였다. 구체적으로 다음의 두 작업이 수행되었다 첫째로 2치와 다치 논리 또는 다치 논리들간에 적용될 만한 의미론적 확장 개념을 의미해석의 바탕을 이루는 진리치 함수와 진리연산에 맞게 정의하였다. 둘째로 정의의 적합성을 확장, 비확장 사례 증명을 통해 예증해 보였다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.591-623
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 우리 나라의 학교 수학에서 실제적으로 CBL, CBR과 같은 실시간 테크놀로지와 MathWorld와 같은 소프트웨어를 활용한 활동 중심의 실험 학습의 가능성을 탐색하고, 이를 통하여 수학 학습의 기초가 되는 함수적 개념의 이해와 그 표상과의 연관성, 그리고 기존의 형성되어 있던 함수에 대한 오개념에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 분석하고자 하였다.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.226-235
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• 2004

초등학생 프로그래밍 교육은 프로그래밍 활동을 통해 논리적 사고력과 문제 해결력을 신장시키는 데 의의를 두고 다양한 프로그래밍 교육 방법과 학습 시스템을 개발하려는 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 프로그래밍 교육의 목표가 프로그래밍적 사고력 함양이라면 프로그래밍적 사고를 언어로 표현하여 실제로 프로그램을 작성할 수 있는 프로그래밍 언어 사용 능력 함양도 필요하다. 초등학생 프로그래밍 언어 학습은 특정 언어의 문법적 설명과 해석을 지양하고 프로그래밍 언어에 대한 올바른 개념 이해와 활용을 통해 프로그램을 구현하는데 필요한 기초 소양 능력 함양에 중점을 두어야 한다. 따라서 초등학생을 위한 프로그래밍 언어 교육 방법의 체계화에 기여할 수 있는 하나의 모델로서, 프로그래밍 언어의 기본적인 개념 중 함수 개념을 효과적으로 지도할 수 있는 지도 원리와 학습 모형을 연구하였고, 함수가 가진 특성 즉 함수적 사고과정을 이용하여 프로그래밍 언어 기술 능력과 논리적 사고력 및 문제해결력의 고등인지기술 능력을 함께 신장시킬 수 있는 지도 방법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.23-43
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• 2010

This study is to investigate how much highschool students, who have learned functional concepts included in the Middle school math curriculum, understand chapters of the function, to analyze the types of errors which they made in solving the mathematical problems and to look for the proper instructional program to prevent or minimize those ones. On the basis of the result of the above examination, it suggests a classification model for teaching-learning methods and teaching material development The result of this study is as follows. First, Students didn't fully understand the fundamental concept of function and they had tendency to approach the mathematical problems relying on their memory. Second, students got accustomed to conventional math problems too much, so they couldn't distinguish new types of mathematical problems from them sometimes and did faulty reasoning in the problem solving process. Finally, it was very common for students to make errors on calculation and to make technical errors in recognizing mathematical symbols in the problem solving process. When students fully understood the mathematical concepts including a definition of function and learned procedural knowledge of them by themselves, they did not repeat the same errors. Also, explaining the functional concept with a graph related to the function did facilitate their understanding,

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.63-78
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to explore a teaching method of limits of functions with more intuitive and visual of CAS graphing calculators rather than with the rigorous ${\epsilon}-{\delta}$ method. Texas Instruments Voyage200 CAS graphing calculators are used for studying the possibility of the use of technology in calculus course. For this, various related theoretical constructs are reviewed: concept image, concept definition, cognitive conflict, the use of visualization of technology for calculus concepts, the theory of APOS, and local straightness. Based on such theoretical constructs this study suggests a teaching method of limits of functions with embodied visualization of CAS graphing calculators.