• 대한수학교육학회지:수학교육학연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.35-55
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• 2000

There seems to be a public consensus that the content of Korean mathematics textbooks is extensive and of a high level of difficulty. However, such judgment is the result of a generalization based on individual experience or on the results from comparisons of the international levels of achievement. Therefore, a more objective and stricter approach to the determination of the quantity and level of difficulty of mathematics content is necessary. For this purpose, this study has compared the content of Koreas 6th and 7th junior high school curriculums, and the Korean mathematics curriculum to textbooks of the United States, which has a considerable influence on the making of Korean mathematics textbooks. First of all, a comparison of Koreas 6th and 7th junior high school mathematics curriculums showed a slight reduction in the total quantity of content, as more content was deleted than was added in the 7th curriculum. However, given the fact that the number of hours of mathematics classes has been reduced, the reduction in content cannot be regarded as anything more than a simple reflection of the reduction in hours, proving that the 7th curriculum has not met its revision objective of reducing the content by 30%. Meanwhile, the comparison of the United States junior high school mathematics textbooks to Korea's 7th curriculum showed that the 7th grade content in the United States was much broader, encompassing content which in Korea ranged from the 2nd grade of elementary school to the 2nd year of junior high school. Therefore, on the surface, it may appear that the overall level of content in the American mathematics textbook is lower than that of the Korean. However, there are several cafes, such as statistics and probability, where certain content was more difficult and introduced at an earlier grade in the United States than in Korea. In fact, it can be said that Korea students tend to find content of the mathematics textbooks to be harder than they actually are because they are delivered as a mere aggregate of algorithms, with little consideration to its application in their everyday lives. In this respect, there is much room for improvement on the mathematics textbooks of Korea.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.347-357
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• 2014

The purpose of this research is to examine the current state of inserting illustrations in science textbooks under the 7th Revised Educational Curriculum which is currently enforced in all grades of elementary schools, and to compare and analyze the external and internal differences in illustrations in science textbooks of elementary schools in Tanzania and Korea to present desirable direction of producing illustrations. There are not only some differences in rate of the kinds and role of the illustrations in grades, but also in both countries. In Korea textbooks, Photographs were mainly used to guide the students into experiments and to train the students in analyzing and interpreting data. In contrast, the Tanzania textbooks place more emphasis on pictures to enhance their interests and curiosity and understand. The Korea textbooks have to place more various illustrations instead of photos but the Tanzania textbooks should place more photos. As a result the addition of more diverse forms of illustrations and the re-organization of illustrations according to the topic should be considersd in future Korea and Tanzania textbooks.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.1274-1285
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• 2002

The purposes of this study are to help the authorized textbooks on home economics be selected and used effectively, to provide basic data that are needed to improve the quality of home economics textbooks, and to suggest a next curriculum on home economics. In the study, eight high school home economics textbooks for "6th Curriculum developed by Ministrv of Education and Human Resources Development"were used for the analysis. The results are summarized as follows: there were wide differences in degrees of diversity and accomplishment in the contents of textbooks. In comparison, it was unfolded that three areas, "family", "home resource management" and "consumer" ,occupied much larger portions than other areas. About 81 percent of the authors of home economics textbooks were professors. A contents analysis on the clothing area showed that every textbook includes costume culture, clothing materials, clothing maintenance, and clothing construction. The presentation coverages and relative difficulties of textbooks were, however, diverse. It is somewhat noticeable that, while fewer professors majoring in clothing construction participated in writing, generally more pages were allocated to clothing construction than other areas. While presentations on anthropometrics method, construction theory, draft theory, usage of sewing machine and fitting theory were insufficient most textbooks were dealing with drafting of basic slopers and sewing procedure, etc. Making-up techniques on the apparels items such as Korean traditional men's pants, pajamas, shirt vest skirt, pants, apron and Korean pouch were handled closely in each textbook.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.353-371
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• 2008

This study contains three themes as follows concerning the state of mathematics education and the textbooks in east and west germany before unification and in unified germany. The first subject is the investigations of the organization of the school systems and of the syllabus of mathematics in east germany in those days. Second, we analyzed the process of preparation for integration before unification, the nature of integration policies and the convention for the unification. Finally, we compare and analyze the similarities and differences in east and west german mathematics textbooks for middle school students combining those in south and north Korea, and further we suggest tasks to be studied in future research.

• 한국학교수학회논문집
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2002

This study is to compared with 7-ga mathematics textbooks of 13 types in the middle school by 7-th curriculum. A synopsis of the Analysis and comparison about the contents of these textbooks is as follows. -The order of contents almost is same about the title and contents in 13 types of textbooks. -It is very important that the definition of terminology should be simple and correct. I investigated the terminology in thirteen textbooks of material at 7-th curriculum. -Most of their textbooks present the motivation of learning mathematics with resource of life such as a story of mathematics and famous mathematicians. -The chapter about numbers and operations has the biggest volume of all. -The evaluation of lessons presents at the each end of chapters with many problems as levels.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.443-464
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• 2016

The purpose of ths study is to compare and analyze the sequence of teaching multiplication facts in the elementary school mathematics. Generally, the multiplication in the elementary school mathematics is composed of the followings; concepts of multiplication, situations involving multiplication, didactical models for multiplication, and multiplication strategies for teaching multiplication facts. This study is focusing to multiplication facts, especially to the sequence of teaching and multiplication strategies. The method of this study is a comparative and analytic method. In order to compare textbooks, we select the Korean elementary mathematics textbooks(1st curriculum~2009 revised curriculum) and the 9 foreign elementary mathematics textbooks(Japan, China, Germany, Finland, Hongkong etc.). As results of comparative investigation, the sequence of teaching multiplication facts is reconsidered on a basis of elementary students' mathematical thinking. And the connectivity of multiplication facts is strengthened in comparison with the foreign elementary mathematics textbooks. Finally multiplication strategies for teaching multiplication facts are discussed for more understanding and reasoning the principles of multiplication facts in the elementary school mathematics.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.843-848
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• 2005

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand how the idea of data view and information graphics is used in the social studies high school textbooks. Data were collected through national curriculum documents and social studies middle school textbooks for the 10th grade students. We set up three questions for this study; what kinds of information graphics are used in the textbooks, how the graphics are organized in the social studies middle school, and how the 7th social studies curriculum is related with the 7th national mathematics curriculum. Through the data analysis, we found that 1) photographs, information tables, illustrations, etc., are used and frequencies of their usages are in descending order, 2) double lines graphs, and stripe graphs are often adopted for the comparison of populations, 3) the relation of the two subjects curricula is not well developed, especially in the curriculum steps of information maps, scatter diagrams, and comparison of populations. Finally we suggest that new web site of data view or information graphics be provided for two curricula, workshop of information graphics be needed for social studies teachers, and modification of the 7th probability and statistics curriculum.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.486-501
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• 2015

In the elementary school science curriculum, wind is one of the most important concept. In particular, land and sea breeze has been a key example to deliver how wind is driven, and thus its model experiments have been used to help students understand causes of wind. Here we compare causes and explanations for wind and land and sea breeze between textbooks in colleges and elementary schools to examine any potential improvement for the contents. In addition, we conducted survey to examine how pre-service teachers understand land and sea breeze, and convection box experiment used in elementary school textbooks is useful to understand land and sea breeze. Based on the comparison, we find that college level textbook explains the cause of wind as atmospheric pressure difference while elementary school textbooks explain them differently according to curriculums. In the textbooks, there are a difference in the way described for land and sea breeze. Analysis of questionnaire indicate that pre-service teachers understood land and sea breeze correctly, and they selected the convection box experiment in 2009 curriculum textbooks as the most suitable one. Explanations and experiments for land and sea breeze in the textbooks have been revised as the modification of elementary school curriculums. We expect this study helps to deliver more solid contents for wind and land and sea breeze in the upcoming new curriculum.

• 한국가정과교육학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.55-68
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• 2005

본 연구는 제 7차 교육과정 기술$\cdot$가정 교과서 중 가정 부분의 '자원의 관리와 환경' 영역 내용과 다른 교과 내용을 분석하여 관련성을 파악하기 위하여 국어, 도덕, 사회, 수학, 과학, 기술, 체육, 음악, 미술 교과서를 분석하였다. 음악을 제외한 전 교과의 내용에서 '자원의 관리와 환경 영역의 내용과 유사한 내용이 발견되었다. 기술$\cdot$가정 교과서의 '자원의 관리와 환경' 영역과 사회교과의 3학년 내용과 많은 관련성을 보이고 있었다 가장 다른 교과와 관련성이 높은 '자원의 관리와 환경' 영역의 내용은 '자원의 활용과 환경' 중단원 중 환경 부분과 '우리들의 소비 생활' 중단원의 소비자 관련 내용으로 나타났다. 그리고 '청소년의 시간과 일 관리' 중단원의 내용이 다른 교과의 내용과 그 관련성이 가장 적게 나타났다. 각 교과마다 목표와 성격이 다르기 때문에 같은 주제라 할지라도, 다루고 있는 초점과 제시방법, 내용의 상세성 정도가 교과마다 차이를 보이 있었다.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.258-270
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• 2009

과학교과서는 한국과 미국에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 교수 학습 자료이다. 과학교육목표와 과학교과내용의 특징을 분석하기 위하여 한국과 미국의 초등학교 과학 교과서를 분석하였다. 한국과 미국의 1학년과 4학년 과학 교과서 각각 100 쪽을 무작위로 선택하여 과학교육목표를 분석하였다. 1학년에서 6학년까지의 생명 영역의 과학 내용이 분석되었다. 한국의 1학년 과학내용은 슬기로운 생활 교과서를 분석하였는데, 슬기로운 생활 교과는 과학교과와 사회교과의 통합교과이다. 미국에서 많이 쓰이고 있는 초등학교 교과서 중 하나인 Harcourt Science의 1학년과 4학년 교과서를 분석하였다. 과학교육목표분석체계는 과학 지식, 과학적 탐구, 과학적 태도, STS, 그리고 과학 철학과 역사로 구성되어 있다. 한국과 미국의 초등학교 과학 교과서의 내용을 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 미국의 초등학교 과학 교과서는 과학적 탐구 보다 과학 지식을 더 많이 포함하고 있었다. 한국의 과학 교과서는 과학 지식 보다는 과학적 탐구를 더 많이 포함하고 있었다. 미국의 초등학교 과학 교과서는 생명 영역의 일부 주제에 대하여 한국 보다 더 어려운 내용을 다루었고, 세포나 생태계의 종류에 대해서는 여러 학년에 걸쳐 반복적으로 다루고 있는 것으로 분석되었다.