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An analysis of errors in problem solving of the function unit in the first grade highschool (고등학교 1학년 함수단원 문제해결에서의 오류에 대한 분석)

  • Mun, Hye-Young;Kim, Yung-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.277-293
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of mathematics education is to develop the ability of transforming various problems in general situations into mathematics problems and then solving the problem mathematically. Various teaching-learning methods for improving the ability of the mathematics problem-solving can be tried. However, it is necessary to choose an appropriate teaching-learning method after figuring out students' level of understanding the mathematics learning or their problem-solving strategies. The error analysis is helpful for mathematics learning by providing teachers more efficient teaching strategies and by letting students know the cause of failure and then find a correct way. The following subjects were set up and analyzed. First, the error classification pattern was set up. Second, the errors in the solving process of the function problems were analyzed according to the error classification pattern. For this study, the survey was conducted to 90 first grade students of ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$high school in Chung-nam. They were asked to solve 8 problems in the function part. The following error classification patterns were set up by referring to the preceding studies about the error and the error patterns shown in the survey. (1)Misused Data, (2)Misinterpreted Language, (3)Logically Invalid Inference, (4)Distorted Theorem or Definition, (5)Unverified Solution, (6)Technical Errors, (7)Discontinuance of solving process The results of the analysis of errors due to the above error classification pattern were given below First, students don't understand the concept of the function completely. Even if they do, they lack in the application ability. Second, students make many mistakes when they interpret the mathematics problem into different types of languages such as equations, signals, graphs, and figures. Third, students misuse or ignore the data given in the problem. Fourth, students often give up or never try the solving process. The research on the error analysis should be done further because it provides the useful information for the teaching-learning process.

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ALMOST STABILITY OF THE MANN ITERATION METHOD WITH ERRORS FOR STRICTLY HEMI-CONTRACTIVE OPERATORS IN SMOOTH BANACH SPACES

  • Liu, Z.;Kang, S.M.;Shim, S.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2003
  • Let K be a nonempty closed bounded convex subset of an arbitrary smooth Banach space X and T : KlongrightarrowK be a strictly hemi-contractive operator. Under some conditions we obtain that the Mann iteration method with errors both converges strongly to a unique fixed point of T and is almost T-stable on K. The results presented in this paper generalize the corresponding results in [l]-[7], [20] and others.

NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR CONVERGENCE OF ISHIKAWA ITERATIVE SCHEMES WITH ERRORS TO φ-HEMICONTRACTIVE MAPPINGS

  • Liu, Seqing;Kim, Jong-Kyu;Kang, Shin-Min
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.251-261
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this paper is to establish the necessary and sufficient conditions which ensure the strong convergence of the Ishikawa iterative schemes with errors to the unique fixed point of a $\Phi$-hemicontractive mapping defined on a nonempty convex subset of a normed linear space. The results of this paper extend substantially most of the recent results.

The analysis of mathematics error type that appears from the process of solving problem related to real life (실생활 문장제의 해결과정에 나타나는 오류유형 분석)

  • Park, Jang Hee;Ryu, Shi Kyu;Lee, Joong Kwoen
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.699-718
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of mathematics eduction is to develop the ability of thinking mathematically. It informs method to solve problem through mathematical thinking that teach mathematical ability. Errors in the problem solving can be thought as those in the mathematical thinking. Therefore analysis and classification of mathematics errors is important to teach mathematics. This study researches the preceding studies on mathematics errors and presents the characteristic of them with analyzed models. The results achieved by analysis of the process of problem solving are as follows : ▸ Students feel much harder to solve words problems rather than multiple-choice problems. ▸ The length of sentence make some differences of understanding of the words problems. Students easy to understand short sentence problems than long sentence problems. ▸ If students feel difficulties on the pre-learned mathematical content, they feel the same difficulties on the words problems based on the pre-learned mathematics content.

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Analyzing Errors Made by Eighth-Grade Students in Solving Geometrical Problems

  • Huang, Xingfeng;Cheng, Longhai
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.357-371
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    • 2011
  • In mathematical problem solving, students may make various errors. In order to draw useful lessons from the errors, and then correct them, we surveyed 24 eighth-grade students' performances in geometrical problem solving according to Casey's hierarchy of errors. It was found that: 1. Students' effect can lead to errors at the stage of "comprehension", "strategy selection", and "skills manipulation"; and 2. Students' geometric schemas also influenced their strategy selection".

CONVERGENCE AND ALMOST STABILITY OF ISHIKAWA ITERATION METHOD WITH ERRORS FOR STRICTLY HEMI-CONTRACTIVE OPERATORS IN BANACH SPACES

  • Liu, Zeqing;Ume, Jeong-Sheok;Kang, Shin-Min
    • The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.293-308
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    • 2004
  • Let K be a nonempty convex subset of an arbitrary Banach space X and $T\;:\;K\;{\rightarrow}\;K$ be a uniformly continuous strictly hemi-contractive operator with bounded range. We prove that certain Ishikawa iteration scheme with errors both converges strongly to a unique fixed point of T and is almost T-stable on K. We also establish similar convergence and almost stability results for strictly hemi-contractive operator $T\;:\;K\;{\rightarrow}\;K$, where K is a nonempty convex subset of arbitrary uniformly smooth Banach space X. The convergence results presented in this paper extend, improve and unify the corresponding results in Chang [1], Chang, Cho, Lee & Kang [2], Chidume [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], Chidume & Osilike [9, 10, 11, 12], Liu [19], Schu [25], Tan & Xu [26], Xu [28], Zhou [29], Zhou & Jia [30] and others.

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An analysis of errors in understanding the fundamental concepts of function and differentiation for matriculants (대학 입학 예정자들의 함수 및 미분의 기초개념 이해에 대한 오류 분석)

  • Lim, Yeon-Hui;Pyo, Yong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.435-457
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this paper is to discover effective teaching and learning methods for improving low level mathematic matriculants', who passed the early decision program, problem solving abilities by analyzing their error patterns in the special lecture for basic mathematics in P University. In this paper, we examine the matriculants' understanding and errors on the fundamental concepts of function, and continuity and differentiability of function based on the pre-examination. We also measure the their academic achievement in the special lecture for basic mathematics, and analyze the differences of error patterns between pre-test and post-test result on the concepts of continuity and differentiability of function.

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An Analysis on Sentence Structures and Interpretation Errors in Word Problems in Mathematics -Focussing on the 2nd grade elementary students- (수학 문장제의 문장 구조와 해석상의 오류 분석 -초등학교 2학년을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Byeong-Ok;Ahn, Byeong-Gon
    • Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.185-204
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    • 2008
  • The purposes of this study are to analyze sentence structures of word problems suggested in educational math programs for the 2nd grade elementary students and error patterns in sentence interpretation, and examine how sentence structures influence on errors during sentence comprehension. Based on the results of the analysis on 168 word problems suggested in math textbooks for the 2nd grade elementary students and error patterns observed while 160 the 2nd grade elementary students attempted to solve math word problems, easy and simple vocabularies are repeatedly used in the sentence structures of word problems and specific real life materials such as fruits, books, the number of people and etc. were repeatedly used. 51.56% of errors in sentence interpretation observed was higher than 39.20% of calculation errors and backtracking operation, a length of sentences, the numbers used in questions and off were analyzed to be involved in the errors in interpretation. Therefore, it is very important to make word problems from a student's points of view rather than a teacher's point of view and the study suggests that teachers help students learn basic sentence interpretation skills.

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