• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.233-256
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• 2009

The notions of conditional probability and independence are fundamental to all aspects of probabilistic reasoning. Several previous studies identified some misconceptions in students' thinking in conditional probability. However, they have not analyzed enough the nature of conditional probability. The purpose of this study was to analyze conditional probability and students' knowledge on conditional probability. First, we analyzed the conditional probability from mathematical, historico-genetic, psychological, epistemological points of view, and identified the essential aspects of the conditional probability. Second, we investigated the high school students' and undergraduate students' thinking m conditional probability and independence. The results showed that the students have some misconceptions and difficulties to solve some tasks with regard to conditional probability. Based on these analysis, the characteristics of reasoning about conditional probability are investigated and some suggestions are elicited.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.1-20
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• 2010

Conditional probability may look simple but it raises various misconceptions. Preceding studies are mostly about such misconceptions. However, instead of focusing on those misconceptions, this paper focused on what the mathematical essence of conditional probability which can be applied to various situations and how good teachers' understanding on that is. In view of this purpose, this paper classified conditional probability which have different ways of defining into two-relative conditional probability which can be get by relative ratio and if-conditional probability which can be get by the inference of the situation change of conditional event. Yet, this is just a superficial classification of resolving ways of conditional probability. The purpose of this paper is in finding the mathematical essence implied in those, and by doing that, tried to find out how well teachers understand about conditional probability which is one integrated concept.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.475-492
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze the United States Elementary Mathematics textbooks "Everyday Mathematics", focused on area of the probability. The concept of probability as qualitative probability is taught from Kindergarten in EM curricula for progressive mathematising. EM have reflected both perspectives in probability which are a frequency perspective and a classical perspective. And EM includes abundant activities for remedying the misconceptions of probability. On the basis of the results from this analysis, we have five suggestions which are helpful for the revision of the Korean national curriculum.

• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.4
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• pp.89-107
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• 2000

이 논문의 목적은 확률에 대한 빈도 해석(특히 라이헨바하와 새먼에 의해 체계화된 형태)을 비판적으로 고찰하는 데에 있다. 보다 구체적으로, 확률 빈도 해석에 대해 기존에 제기된 반론들을 보다 강화하고 새로운 추가적 반론들을 제기함으로써, 확률 빈도 해석이 종래에 생각되어 왔던 것보다 훨씬 더 심각한 상태에 있음을 보이려 한다. 특히, 빈도 해석이 흔히 여겨지는 바와 달리, 확률 값을 부여하기 위해 여러 국면들에 있어서의 주관적이고 임의적인 선택들에 의존해야 한다는 것이 이 논문에서의 반론들을 통해 드러날 것이다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.9
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• pp.299-316
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 스프레드쉬트 프로그램 중에서 가장 활용도가 높은 Excel을 이용하여 만든 여러 가지 모의실험이 확률 통계학습에 어떻게 활용되는 지를 제시함으로써 개념의 지도 및 문제풀이 능력 향상의 효율성을 높이는 방안을 모색하고자 한다. 즉 이는 단순한 이론적 수치계산이 아닌 구체적 경험을 제시하여 학생들에게 확률적 상황에 내재된 확률적 정보의 의미를 파악하게 함으로써 확률의 개념에 대한 이해를 돕고 확률 통계단원에 대한 흥미를 유발케 하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.53-62
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 전자문서의 개념적 분류기법을 제안한다. 기존의 문서분류는 대부분 문서에 나타난 용어를 기반으로 분류하므로 개념적인 분류가 불가능하다. 제안된 기법에서는 한국어 시소러스를 사용하여 문서에 나타난 용어 뿐 아니라 용어의 상하위 개념을 기준으로 문서를 분류할 수 있다. 특히, 제안된 방법은 확률 벡터를 사용하는 방식으로써 점진적인 학습이 가능하다는 장점도 가진다.

• School Mathematics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.19-37
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• 2014

This study investigated the degree of understanding pre-service teachers' random variable concept, based on the attention and the importance for developing pre-service teachers' ability on statistical reasoning in statistics education. To accomplish this, the subject of this study was 70 pre-service teachers belonged to three universities respectively. The teachers were given to 7 tasks on random variable and requested to solve them in 40 minutes. The tasks consisted of three contents in large; 1) one was on the definition of random variables, 2) the other was on the understanding of random variables in different/diverse conditions, and 3) another was on problem solving relevant to random variable concept. The findings are as follows. First, while 20% of pre-service teachers understood the definition of random variable correctly, most teachers could not distinguish between random variable and variable or probability. Second, there was a significant difference in understanding random variables in different/diverse conditions. Namely, the degree of understanding on the continuous random variable was superior to that of discrete random variable and also the degree of understanding on the equal distribution was superior to that of unequality distribution. Third, three types of problems relevant to random variable concept dealt with in this study were finding a sample space and an elementary event, and finding a probability value. In result, the teachers responded to the problem on finding a probability value most correctly and on the contrary to this, they had the mot difficulty in solving the problem on finding a sample space.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.11
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• pp.127-144
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• 2001

본 연구는 확률의 다양한 의미를 반영한 초등학교 확률 학습 프로그램을 개발하고, 개발된 프로그램의 적용 가능성을 알아보는데 목적을 두고 있다. 먼저 확률의 다양한 의미를 반영한 초등학교 확률 학습프로그램을 개발하기 위하여, 프로그램의 기본 방향을 설정하고, 확률의 다양한 의미를 반영하기 위한 교수 방법을 마련하였다. 개발된 프로그램은 초등학교 6학년 한 단원 분량인 7차시로 이루어져 있다. 다음으로 프로그램 시행 전에 실시한 검사에서 확률적 사고 수준이 상 ${\cdot}$ 중 ${\cdot}$ 하인 것으로 나타난 세 명의 학생을 연구 대상으로 개발된 프로그램을 시행하였다. 프로그램 적용 전 ${\cdot}$ 후에 실시한 지필 평가와 비디오 카메라로 녹음한 수업 내용과 학생들의 학습지를 검토하여 프로그램 적용 전, 1${\sim}$7 각 차시 후, 프로그램 적용 후의 시기로 나누어 분석한 결과, 세 학생 모두 확률적 사고 수준이 가장 높은 수준인 4수준으로 발전하였다. 본 연구의 결과, 확률을 이론적 의미 뿐 아니라 경험적 ${\cdot}$ 통계적 의미로 접근하면 초등학교 학생들도 확률 개념을 학습할 수 있었다. 따라서 확률을 다양한 관점으로 접근한다면, 초등학교에서도 독립성, 조건부 확률 같은 개념을 유의미하게 학습할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.21-38
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• 2005

The purpose of this research is to develop a probability program based on the actual condition of understanding of probability by the elementary school students from 3rd to 6th grade and search for ways to apply it to the 3rd grade of elementary school students. Based on the results from the research, the author reached a conclusion as following. After applying the learning program to five students of 3rd grade, all of the five students made progress understanding the concept of experimental and theoretical probability. However, for understanding the concept of example space, only two leading students were improved, which shows that students are having much difficulty in understanding the concept. As for under-standing the concept of experimental probability, many students gained the conceptual difference between the experimental and theoretical probability after using the program and enhanced their understanding of experimental probability.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.107-119
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• 2010

In this paper we study the expectation from the past which would be based in the initial Probability Theory. These study can show the value of expectation in the initial concept of Probability and illuminate the concept being taught.