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Motivated Strategies for Learning of Prospective Elementary School Teachers (예비초등교사의 학습동기 전략에 관한 연구)

  • 김민경
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2002
  • According to changing the society rapidly in the 21s1 century, the self-regulated learning ability is considered as an ability of which people should carry on their lives. The purpose of this study was to investigate prospective elementary school teachers in mathematics teaching method class in terms of the following areas: (1) the degree of their abilities shown the lower level factors of motivated strategies for learning such as self-efficacy, intrinsic value, anxiety, cognitive strategy use, and self-regulation (2) relations between factors of motivated strategies for loaming and performance of prospective elementary school teachers The results show that the prospective elementary school teachers showed above the mean value of the motivated strategies for learning and there are positive relations among lower level factors of motivated strategies fur learning except anxiety, positive relation between motivated strategies for learning and achievement. In order to help the prospective elementary school teacher to improve their motivated strategies fur learning in their elementary mathematics teaching method lecture, several methods such as mathematical connections to real world problem, history of mathematics and interview with mathematicians and application of feller's ARCS model to elementary mathematics education are suggested.

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A Study on the Relationship between Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics Teaching Anxiety in Elementary School Teachers (초등학교 교사의 수학불안과 수학교수불안의 상관관계 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Rina
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 2021
  • In this study, I investigate the relationship between mathematics anxiety and mathematics teacher anxiety of elementary school teachers with integrated method. As a result of statistical analysis of the survey of 256 elementary school teachers, there was a statistically significant positive correlation between the two factors (r = .630, p <.05). The analysis show that teaching experience and degree may affect mathematics anxiety and teaching experience, degree, and teacher qualification may affect mathematics teaching anxiety. Subsequently I conduct a qualitative study focusing on interviews with 20 elementary school teachers. As a result of the analysis, I confirm that even if the mathematics anxiety is low, mathematics teaching anxiety may occur due to the teaching environment. As a result of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of this study, Korean elementary school teachers' mathematics anxiety and mathematics teaching anxiety might be regarded as separate factors. From the result of the study, I suggest that mathematics anxiety and mathematics teaching anxiety of elementary school teachers, each emotional state might be considered as independent emotional status. The implication of the study indicate that independent methods might be developed in order to prevent and treat mathematics anxiety and mathematics teaching anxiety in elementary school teachers.

A Study on the affective variables of gifted students in mathematics (수학영재의 수학교과에 대한 정의적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Soon-Ja;Kim, Yong-Gu;Jung, In-Chul;Lim, Gen-Kwang
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.41-55
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    • 2006
  • Although gifted students are well ready in the perspective of intelligence, in order to make their learning highly effective, it is necessary to revitalize their intellectual abilities and progress it into proactive learning behaviour It is requisite to stress on the affective variables for achieving this. This study examined and analyzed affective variables for the subject mathematics on self-concept toward mathematics, attitude, interest, mathematical anxiety, and learning habits.

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Many-sided Analysis on Korean Students' Affective Characteristics in Mathematical Learning (수학 학습에서 초.중.고 학생들의 정의적 특성에 대한 다각적 분석)

  • Kim, Sun Hee
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.61-75
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    • 2013
  • This study analyzed Korean students' affective characteristics in mathematical learning according to school and sex by Factor Analysis and Cognitive Diagnosis Theory. In numerical affective achievements by Factor Analysis, there are mean differences between schools, i.e. elementary school and secondary school. And there are sexual differences within schools and boys show more positive achievement than girls. By Cognitive Diagnosis Theory, I investigated 6 affective attributes' proportions that students achieved according to school and sex. Middle school students' proportion is highest in self-control and anxiety and the attribute that students achieved most in all school is cognizing mathematical value. Boys show higher proportion in self directivity, interest and confidence than girls, but girls show higher proportion in anxiety than boys. In personal profiles, the proportion of students who achieved 5 attributes except anxiety is highest.

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The Issues of the Elementary School Teacher Recruitment Examination (교대 수학심화과정에서 본 초등교원 임용고사의 문제점)

  • Lee, Eui-Won
    • Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.659-680
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    • 2010
  • Under the banner "Toward Global Excellence in Teacher Education", Daegu National University of Education has strived for the single aim of excellence in pre-service and in-service for over fifty years. Specially the department of Mathematics education aims to develope students' mathematical power which is related to elementary school mathematical concepts & theories. However not a few of the students seem to have test-anxiety which is relate to teacher recruitment examination. In these view, we conclude that students must have been suffered from test anxiety. Consequently the results of the study are follow. $\cdot$ 2nd paper-pencil test of the elementary school teacher recruitment(2010) has been emphasized on statement of examinee logocal thought about all 10 subjects. $\cdot$ 3rd test of the elementary school teacher recruitment(2010) has been focused on only speaking english of examinee. Thus we conclude that these Recruitment Examination(2010) couldn't minimize the test anxiety of the students. Therefore next test of the elementary school Teacher Recruitment should contain on mathematical problem-solving in elementary school mathematics textbooks.

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Development of Strategies to Reduce Anxiety toward Mathematics (수학불안 감소 방안에 관한 연구)

  • 최택영;김시주;김현태
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.127-142
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    • 2003
  • This study was done to research and analyze the reasons why students feel anxious about learning mathematics. The aim of this study are to learn how to decrease the anxiety toward mathematics, and to find ways to give the learners confidence in their ability to study as well as increase their mathematical competence. The research method used was the development of a mathematics program through which the learners could have easy access to the mathematics to be studied.

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Development and verification of an affective inventory in Mathematical Learning (수학 학습에 대한 정의적 성취 검사 도구 개발 및 검증)

  • Lee, Chong-Hee;Kim, Sun-Hee;Kim, Soo-Jin;Kim, Ki-Yeon;Kim, Bu-Mi;Yun, Soo-Cheol;Kim, Yun-Min
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.50 no.2
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    • pp.247-261
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the researchers developed an inventory which can measure the affective achievement in mathematical learning especially targeted to Korean students. By using EFA and CFA, the six affective factors of mathematical learning such as learning directivity, self control, anxiety, interest, cognizing value and confidence are distinguished. Also, the content validity of this inventory was examined by the experts groups, composed of mathematics education professors, high school mathematics teachers, and measurement experts. The reliability of the instrument was high enough to trust the results. Through a large scaled sampling, the reliability and validity of this inventory were verified. In addition, this inventory was developed not by a partial aspects of a certain theory but based on the recent theories. Due to these reasons, the results of this study can be respected that it plays a leading part in understanding the affective achievement of Korean students.

On Social and Psychological Benefits of Cooperative Learning (협동학습이 사회적 심리적 유익에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Eun-Mi
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.63-76
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of cooperative learning in mathematics in university level. We share reflections from 54 and 57 students in linear algebra courses which were conducted by cooperative learning. We examine how students increase self-confidence and reduce the anxiety in learning, and also develop the social skills in communication.

Development and Validation of Mathematics Anxiety Scale for Elementary Students (초등학생의 수학 불안 측정 도구 개발 연구)

  • Kim, Rina
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.431-444
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a mathematics anxiety scale for elementary students in South Korea. Based on the literature review, I developed two types of survey items measuring elementary students' mathematics anxiety. Teachers or students may use survey measurements selectively according to the students' participants in mathematics private institutions. In order to assess the reliability and validity of survey items, I conducted surveys with elementary students. The sample consisted of 300 elementary students in public elementary schools in Seoul. A total of 28 items were developed and examined for the internal consistence. The results showed that the proposed scale was appropriate to represent the mathematics anxiety of elementary students. The survey items of this study could be applied for assessing elementary students' mathematics anxiety regardless of their gender and age factors.

Introducing the Mrs. Weill's Hill Diagram to Learning Algorithm (수 연산에서의 언덕도 도입의 실제)

  • Lee Eui-Won;Kim Jin-Sang;Lee Myung-Hee
    • Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.23-40
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    • 2002
  • Historically, the use of algorithms has been emphasized in the mathematics curriculum at the elementary school mathematics. The current reform movement in our country are seemed to emphasize the importance of algorithms in favor of problem-solving approaches, the conceptualization of mathematical processes and applications of mathematics in real world situations. Recently, children may come to school with a fairly well-developed attitude about mathematics and mathematical ideas. That is, they do not come to school and to learning mathematics with a clean slate. Because they have already formed some partial mathematical concepts in a wide variety of contexts. Many kindergarten children have attended pre-school programs where they played with blocks, made patterns, and started adding and subtracting. It seems that there are psychological change attitudes of the children in upper grades toward learning mathematics. In our elementary school mathematics, almost every student are still math anxious or have developed math anxiety because of paper-pencil test. In these views, this paper is devoted to introduce and apply to second grade students in ND-elementary school in Taegu City the new method for learning addition and subtraction so called ‘Mrs Weill's Hill’, which is believed as a suitable method for children with mathematical teaming disabilities and Math anxiety.

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