• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.507-518
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• 2006

There is a great need to find new topics which are good to evaluate and to encourage the mathematical creativity of gifted students, For the purpose to find such a topic, we study Ho-bak-go-nu game that is one of Korean traditional games and a typical alignment game. By analyzing patterns of possible alignment, the author gives a complete solution to win or not to lose according to the rules chosen by players. The author also poses several class-models including a test for the class of gifted students based on the analysis of real classes on Ho-bak-go-nu game.