• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.329-349
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• 2003

Mathematics education is accomplished by systems such as mathematical curriculum and tools such as a textbook which reflects such systems. Human beings make such systems and tools. Therefore, a viewpoint of mathematics of those who make them is an important factor. The view point of mathematics is formed during doing and learning mathematics, but the already formed viewpoint of mathematics affects doing and teaching mathematics. Hence, it will be a factor which affects basically that those who employ themselves on mathematics education have a certain viewpoint of mathematics. This article presents dialectical materialistic viewpoint as the viewpoint of mathematics which affects fundamentally on mathematical teaching-learning practice. The dialectical materialism is carried through the process and result of mathematics development. This shows that mathematical knowledge is objective. Mathematical knowledge has developed according to three basic rules of dialectical materialism i.e. the transformation of quantity into quality, the unification of antagonistic objects, and the negation of negation. This viewpoint of mathematics should offer the viewpoint of mathematics education which is different from the view point of absolutism, relativism or formal logic. In this article I considered mathematics separating standpoint of mathematics into materialistic viewpoint and dialectical viewpoint. 1 did so for the convenience of analysis, but you will be able to look at the unified viewpoint of dialectical materialism. 1 will make mention of teaching-learning method on another occasion.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to provide fundamental data and implication for forming desirable viewpoint of mathematics lesson critique and for improvement of expertise in lesson by compare and analyze the viewpoint of mathematics lesson critique of pre-service and in-service teachers. For the achievement of the purpose, The lesson critique materials of each 25 pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers were collected and arranged, and compare and analyze the viewpoint of mathematics lesson critique of pre-service and in-service teachers by using the standard for analyzing viewpoint of lesson critique composed of two categories, five main codes and 18 sub codes. The results of this study, both pre-service and in-service teachers have tendency for criticising lesson focusing on the practice rather than plan of lesson and both pre-service and in-service teachers showed evaluative reaction in most of critical statements and used positive ones rather than negative ones. The only pre-service teachers, though minor of them, showed non-evaluative reaction in criticising class and most of the statements were just description and explanation without any their own judgement for the scenes and activities of lessons and most of pre-service teachers have tendency to include reflection and introspection for their own class in lesson critique.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to estimate teachers'conceptions of mathematics through the conception on compositions of mathematical knowledge, the conception on structure of mathematical knowledge, the conception on status of mathematical knowledge, the conception on mathematical activity, and the conception of mathematics learning. This study reached the following conclusions: Most of teachers has more internal viewpoint than external viewpoint on the compositions, structures and status of mathematical knowledge, mathematical activity and mathematics learning.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.61-72
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• 2004

In this paper, we investigate several values of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art on mathematics educational viewpoint. We study them with four points of view: mathematical approach through problems of real life, algorithmization of concept and type, significance of affective domain and application of arithmetic. The result shows that the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art have great meaning of today's Korean mathematics education and possibility of application.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.139-156
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• 2006

The concept of probability in current school mathematics has been dealt with in the classic viewpoint (mathematical probability) and part of the frequency viewpoint and axiomatic viewpoint have been introduced. However, since the exact understanding of the probability concepts is not possible only with the classic viewpoint, we need to research further on methods to complement classic viewpoint and emphasize various aspects of probability concepts (Lee, Kyung Hwa, 1996). Therefore, this study is to find out optimal computer simulation plans in teaching statistical probability. For the purpose, it examines how the nature of mathematical knowledge may be changed when statistical probability is taught with a use of computer simulation based on the Theory of Didactical Situation presented by Brousseau(1997). Next, it identifies how probability curriculum should be reconstituted for introducing statistical probability through computer simulation. Finally, it develops specific teaching materials that introduce statistical probability using computer simulation based on the results obtained.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.717-725
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• 2009

We show that to every real polynomial of degree n, there corresponds a certain basis for the space of polynomials of degree less than or equal to (n-1). As an application, we give a new proof for the existence and uniqueness of the partial fraction decomposition of a rational function.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.33-52
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• 1997

We can explain open education by means of pulling down the straight and narrow viewpoint of our educational system. We should incorporate various thoughts and attempts to the most practical educational classrooms and learn to cope flexibly with the several educational problems. On the other hand, Britain for the last fifty years have adapted progressive method in most schools, but with no visible results. The children's fundamental mathematical abilities have not increased. Therefore, mathematical educators in U. S. and Britain proposed the following three facts: First, we need to find out precisely what is involved in applying mathematical skills to practical situations; Secondly, we need to find out why this kind of mathematical understanding is so difficult for so many children; And, finally, we need to know what methods can be used to help children attain this wider mathematical understanding. Thus, we have analyzed and studied the British primary mathematics textbooks < stage 1 >, < stage 3 >, < stage 4 > and < stage 5 > from the open educational viewpoint and the above proposals. As result, a central point was that British have well incorporated into their primary mathematics textbooks with the variety of programs using everyday problems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.37-40
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• 2003

We introduce the category IRel (H) consisting of intuitionistic fuzzy relational spaces on sets and we study structures of the category IRel (H) in the viewpoint of the topological universe introduced by L.D.Nel. Thus we show that IRel (H) satisfies all the conditions of a topological universe over Set except the terminal separator property and IRel (H) is cartesian closed over Set.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.47-54
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• 1999

We introduce some historical facts on number theory, especially prime numbers and modular arithmetic. And then, with the viewpoint of computer arithmetic, residue number systems are considered as an alternate to positional number systems so that high performance and high speed computation can be achieved in a specified domain such as cryptography and digital signal processing.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.839-848
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• 1998

We can obtain the concise description of two dimensional Finsler space from the viewpoint of their geodesic curves. In this paper we obtain the geodesic equations in a two-dimensional Finsler space with some special (${\alpha},\;{\beta}$)-metrics by using the Weierstrass form. We shall be referred to an isothermal coodinate system and an orthonormal one with respect to an associated Riemannian space.