• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.21-45
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• 2012

The purpose of the study was to investigate how students understand each operations with whole numbers and fractions, and the relationship between their knowledge of operations with whole numbers and conceptual understanding of operations on fractions. Researchers categorized students' understanding of operations with whole numbers and fractions based on their semantic structure of these operations, and analyzed the relationship between students' understanding of operations with whole numbers and fractions. As the results, some students who understood multiplications with whole numbers as only situations of "equal groups" did not properly conceptualize multiplications of fractions as they interpreted wrongly multiplying two fractions as adding two fractions. On the other hand, some students who understood multiplications with whole numbers as situations of "multiplicative comparison" appropriately conceptualize multiplications of fractions. They naturally constructed knowledge of fractions as they build on their prior knowledge of whole numbers compared to other students. In the case of division, we found that some students who understood divisions with whole numbers as only situations of "sharing" had difficulty in constructing division knowledge of fractions from previous division knowledge of whole numbers.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.235-263
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• 2009

The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of children's understanding of fractions in mathematics problem solving. Kieren has claimed that the concept of fractions is not a single construct, but consists of several interrelated subconstructs(i.e., part-whole, ratio, operator, quotient and measure). Later on, in the early 1980s, Behr et al. built on Kieren's conceptualization and suggested a theoretical model linking the five subconstructs of fractions to the operations of fractions, fraction equivalence and problem solving. In the present study we utilized this theoretical model as a reference to investigate children's understanding of fractions. The case study has been conducted with 6 children consisted of 4th to 5th graders to detect how they understand factions, and how their understanding influence problem solving of subconstructs, operations of fractions and equivalence. Children's understanding of fractions was categorized into "part-whole", "ratio", "operator", "quotient", "measure" and "result of operations". Most children solved the problems based on their conceptual structure of fractions. However, we could not find the particular relationships between children's understanding of fractions and fraction operations or fraction equivalence, while children's understanding of fractions significantly influences their solutions to the problems of five subconstructs of fractions. We suggested that the focus of teaching should be on the concept of fractions and the meaning of each operations of fractions rather than computational algorithm of fractions.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.337-354
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• 2011

The purpose of the study was to investigate how students understand multiplication and division of fractions and how their understanding influences the solutions of fractional word problems. Thirteen students from 5th to 6th grades were involved in the study. Students' understanding of operations with fractions was categorized into "a part of the parts", "multiplicative comparison", "equal groups", "area of a rectangular", and "computational procedures of fractional multiplication (e.g., multiply the numerators and denominators separately)" for multiplications, and "sharing", "measuring", "multiplicative inverse", and "computational procedures of fractional division (e.g., multiply by the reciprocal)" for divisions. Most students understood multiplications as a situation of multiplicative comparison, and divisions as a situation of measuring. In addition, some students understood operations of fractions as computational procedures without associating these operations with the particular situations (e.g., equal groups, sharing). Most students tended to solve the word problems based on their semantic structure of these operations. Students with the same understanding of multiplication and division of fractions showed some commonalities during solving word problems. Particularly, some students who understood operations on fractions as computational procedures without assigning meanings could not solve word problems with fractions successfully compared to other students.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.453-475
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• 2018

This study examines how elementary students understand fractions with operations conceptually and how they perform procedures in the division of fractions. We attempted to look into students' understanding about fractions with divisions in regard to mathematical proficiency suggested by National Research Council (2001). Mathematical proficiency is identified as an intertwined and interconnected composition of 5 strands- conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, strategic competence, adaptive reasoning, and productive disposition. We developed an instrument to identify students' understanding of fractions with multiplication and division and conducted the survey in which 149 6th-graders participated. The findings from the data analysis suggested that overall, the 6th-graders seemed not to understand fractions conceptually; in particular, their understanding is limited to a particular model of part-whole fraction. The students showed a tendency to use memorized procedure-invert and multiply in a given problem without connecting the procedure to the concept of the division of fractions. The findings also proposed that on a given problem-solving task that suggested a pathway in order for the students to apply or follow the procedures in a new situation, they performed the computation very fluently when dividing two fractions by multiplying by a reciprocal. In doing so, however, they appeared to unable to connect the procedures with the concepts of fractions with division.

• 한국초등수학교육학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.563-588
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• 2015

초등학교에서는 여러 가지 이유로 교수학적 변환이 불가피하다. 수학에서는 덧셈과 곱셈은 이항연산, 뺄셈과 나눗셈은 단항연산으로 다루고 있는 반면, 초등에서는 사칙연산 모두를 이항연산으로 취급하는 교수학적 변환을 시도한다. 그런데 사칙연산의 개념을 '익힌다는 것'은 개념이 어떻게 도입되는가가 더 중요하게 부각된다는 점에서 개념을 이해하는 것과는 다르다. 이에 본 연구에서는 자연수와 분수의 사칙연산을 개념 익히기(개념이 어떻게 도입되고 있는지와 연산 선택의 문제)와 연산 사이의 연결이라는 두 가지 관점으로 분석하여, 자연수와 분수의 사칙연산 지도와 관련된 몇 가지 시사점을 도출하였다. 분수의 나눗셈에서는 상황을 바탕으로 연산을 선택하지 않고 곧장 분수의 곱셈과의 연결을 시도했다는 것과 분수의 나눗셈을 그 자체로 이해하기 위해서는 5학년 2학기와 6학년 1학기에 걸쳐 제시되어 있는 분수의 나눗셈을 통합해야 한다는 것 등이 그것들이다. 이는 후속 교과서 개발 시 유용한 참고자료가 될 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.195-215
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• 2001

The purpose of this paper is to present a specific set of home teaching methods in hopes to prevent slow learner of the elementary mathematics. This paper deals with the number and operations, one of five topics in the elementary mathematics A survey of two hundred elementary school teachers was made to see the teacher's opinions of the role of home studying and to concretize the contents of the research topics. There were asked which is the most essential contents for the concrete loaming and which is the most difficult monad that might cause slow leaner. And those were found to be; counting, and arithmetic operations(addition and subtraction) of one or two-digit numbers and multiplication and their concepts representations and operations(addition and subtraction) of fractions. The home teaching methods are based on the situated learning about problem solving in real life situations and on the active teaming which induces children's participation in the process of teaching and learning. Those activities in teaching each contents are designed to deal with real objects and situations. Most teaching methods are presented in the order of school curriculum. To teach the concepts of numbers and the place value, useful activities using manipulative materials (Base ten blocks, Unifix, etc.) or real objects are also proposed. Natural number's operations such as addition, subtraction and multiplication are subdivided into small steps depending upon current curriculum, then for understanding of operational meaning and generalization, games and activities related to the calculation of changes are suggested. For fractions, this paper suggest 10 learning steps, say equivalent partition, fractional pattern, fractional size, relationship between the mixed fractions and the improper fraction, identifying fractions on the number line, 1 as a unit, discrete view point of fractions, comparison of fractional sizes, addition and subtraction, quantitative concepts. This research basically centers on the informal activities of kids under the real-life situation because such experiences are believed to be useful to prevent slow learner. All activities and learnings in this paper assume children's active participation and we believe that such active and informal learning would be more effective for learning transfer and generalization.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈E:수학교육논문집
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.707-734
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 초등학교 4, 5, 6학년 20명을 대상으로 분수의 덧셈과 뺄셈에 대하여 아동이 어떻게 이해하고 있는지 알아보고, 그것이 분수의 덧셈과 뺄셈 문장제 해결에 어떤 영향을 주는지 알아보았다. 연구 결과 많은 아동들이 분수의 덧셈을 합병의 상황으로, 분수의 뺄셈을 제거의 상황으로 이해하고 있었으며, 대부분 동분모 분수의 덧셈, 뺄셈과 이분모 분수의 덧셈, 뺄셈을 동일한 의미로 이해하고 있었다. 몇몇 아동들은 분수의 덧셈과 뺄셈을 특정 상황과 연결 지어 이해하고 있기 보다는 연산의 계산 절차를 연산의 의미로 이해하고 있었는데, 동분모 분수의 덧셈, 뺄셈보다 이분모 분수의 덧셈, 뺄셈을 계산절차로만 이해하고 있는 아동들이 상대적으로 많았다. 분수의 덧셈과 뺄셈에 대한 아동의 이해가 문장제 해결에 어떤 영향을 주는지 조사한 결과 분수의 덧셈에 대하여 아동이 어떤 의미로 이해하고 있느냐는 분수의 덧셈 문장제 해결에 큰 영향을 주지 않았다. 또한 분수의 덧셈에 대하여 동일한 이해 범주에 포함된 아동들 간에도 문장제의 해결 방법에 공통된 특성은 발견되지 않았다. 반면, 분수의 뺄셈에서는 많은 아동이 분수의 뺄셈에 대하여 자신이 지니고 있는 의미론적 구조에 기초하여 문제를 해결하려는 경향을 보였으며, 동일한 이해 범주에 포함된 아동들 간에도 분수의 뺄셈 문장제 해결 방법에 공통된 특성이 발견되었다. 특히 분수의 덧셈과 뺄셈을 특정 상황과 연관 지어 이해하고 있기 보다는 분수의 덧셈과 뺄셈의 계산 절차를 각 연산의 의미로 이해하고 있었던 아동들은 다른 아동들에 비해 문장제 해결 능력이 떨어졌다.

• 한국초등수학교육학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.285-304
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• 2009

초등학교 수와 연산 영역 중 핵심적인 내용이면서 많은 학생들이 어려워하는 부분이 분수 연산임에도 불구하고 분수의 덧셈과 뺄셈에 관한 연구는 상대적으로 많지 않다. 이에 본 논문은 제7차 및 개정 교육과정에 제시된 내용을 바탕으로 교육과정과 교과서간 연계성, 지도시기의 적절성, 차시 구성의 적절성 측면에서 분수의 덧셈과 뺄셈에 관한 내용을 분석하고 교과서의 내용 전개에 따라 도입, 활동, 익히기 부분으로 나눠서 면밀히 분석하였다. 또한 관련된 내용이 있는 경우마다 익힘책의 내용을 추가적으로 탐색함으로써 분석의 깊이를 고려하였다. 구체적으로 도입 부분에 대해서는 '생활에서 알아보기'에 제시된 문장제가 실생활과 어느 정도 연결되는지, 다루는 문장제의 의미는 무엇이며 그 빈도는 어떠한지, 문장제의 해결 방법을 어떻게 제시하고 있는지를 분석하였다. 활동 부분에 대해서는 공통적으로 많이 활용하고 있는 시각적 모델에 대해서 활용의 다양성과 적절성을 살펴보았고, 활동을 통해 계산 원리 및 방법을 어떻게 형식화하는지를 탐색하였다. 마지막으로, 적용 부분에 대해서는 교과서의 '익히기'와 수학익힘책에 제시된 문제 유형을 분석하고, 문장제를 통해 드러나는 연산의 의미를 집중적으로 분석하였다. 이를 통해 본 논문은 개정 교육과정에 의한 수학과 교과용 도서 개발에 논의거리와 시사점을 제공하고자 한다.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈C:초등수학교육
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.129-147
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 CCSSM-CA와 그에 따른 미국 초등 교과서에 제시된 분수의 연산 내용을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 분수를 단위분수나 분모가 같은 분수의 합으로 표현하게 하여 분수 개념과 연산을 연결 짓는 특징이 있었다. 또 분수의 곱셈에서는 곱하는 한 수의 크기에 기초하여 다른 수의 곱의 결과를 비교하도록 하거나, 나눗셈에서는 단위분수가 포함된 나눗셈을 먼저 다루고, 다양한 방법으로 계산을 하도록 제시하는 특징 등이 있었다.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.203-217
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• 2018

This study examined preservice elementary teachers' patterns and tendencies in thinking of drawn models of multiplication with fractions. In particular, it investigated preservice elementary teachers' work in a context where they were asked to select among drawn models for symbolic expressions illustrating multiplication with non-whole number fractions including a mixed number. Preservice teachers' interpretations of fraction multiplication used in interpreting different types of drawn models were analysed-both quantitatively and qualitatively. Findings and implications are discussed and further research is suggested.