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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 Math anxiety according to the features of brain preference (좌우뇌선호도에 따른 수학불안에 관한 연구)

  • Shim, Seul-Ki;Lee, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.443-458
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    • 2010
  • This study is about how differ math anxiety according to the features of brain preference. In order to solve questions, BPI test and math anxiety test were done to high school students in the second grade. The test sheets were analyzed by ANOVA and MANOVA using SPSS 14.0. The result was found out that math anxiety was high in the order of left-brain preferences, both-brain preferences, and right-brain preferences. High level of math anxiety among students with right-brain preferences seem to be influenced by the right brain which prefers emotional features. Therefore, students need to stimulate their left brain by writing and reading something a lot when they solve math questions. Also, teachers can lessen math anxiety of students by give them opportunities to solve step-by-step questions, using various visual teaching materials promoting students' reasoning ability which can help them solve questions in a systematic and analytic way.

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Alternatives of the Standardized Test in the Elementary School Mathematics (초등수학의 지필평가의 대안적인 채점방안)

  • Lee, Eui-Won
    • Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.231-245
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    • 2009
  • Almost every children are naturally non competitive, so they have test anxiety. Because grading in paper-pencil tests is related to competition with their friends. Intense competition should not be a part of the classroom environment. This study intends to reflect current standardized tests(summative evaluations) in an elementary school mathematics(2008) and reconstructed it's problem. Teachers should provide students with rich situational problem-solving opportunities. Therefore we conclude "summative evaluation are consisted of some large problem type which contain some subproblems, or from easy(simple) problem with relation to difficult problem)".

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A Study on Gender Differences by the Treatment Program(UTF) for Reducing Math Anxiety (수학불안감소 처치프로그램에서 남녀 성차에 관한 연구)

  • Choi-Koh, SangSook
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.111-127
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    • 2020
  • In many studies, mathematics anxiety (MA) is a major factor affecting students' mathematical achievement (MC) and is reported to have a greater negative effect on female students. In the study, we developed a complex treatment program consisting of 10 lesson units, to reduce mathematic anxiety and applied it to 26 male and female students with high MA. For this purpose, we analyzed the differences between the two gender groups collected by the Math Anxiety Scale for Students(MASS) and Mathematical Achievement Scale(MCS) before and after. As a result of the treatment program, MA was decreased in both groups, but only female students scored higher in MC. The program that had been effective for both boys and girls in MA satisfied the main purpose of which was to treat MA with integrated mathematical and psychological aspects, and implied that additional procedures and guidance should be followed for boys' MC.

The Study of Factors of Anxiety of Permutation and Combination in High School (고등학교 순열과 조합 단원의 불안요인 연구)

  • Kim, Mi-Jeong;Kim, Yong-Gu;Jung, In-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.261-279
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    • 2009
  • Permutation and combination are the subjects that most teachers feel difficult to teach in Mathematics. This paper investigated evaluation items and factors of anxiety of students for permutation and combination, and further examined the way to lessen the factors of anxiety. Two high school students participated for over a year from December 2007 to February 2008. Also, two teachers joined for the analysis of evaluation items. We found that the ill-structured problems and word problems are the main factors to bring about the anxiety, whereas cooperative learning with high intelligent peers, practice to read word problems and write the process of problems solving are helpful in lessening the mathematical anxieties. Further we propose that the study of appropriate teaching and learning method for permutation and combination should be performed in the future.

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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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The Effect of Using Graphing Calculators on Students' Understanding Functions and Attitudes Towards Mathematics and Graphing Calculators

  • Kwon, Oh-Nam;Kim, Min-Kyeong
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using graphing calculators on students' understanding of the linear and quadratic function concepts. The populators of this study are tenth graders at high school in Seoul, one class for the treatment group and another class for the comparison group, and experiment period is 14 weeks including two weeks for school regular exams.Function tests used in the study was proposed which described a conceptual knowledge of functions in terms of the following components: a) Conceptual understanding, b) Interpreting a function in terms of a verbal experission, c) Translating between different representations of functions, and d) Mathematical modeling a real-world situation using functions. Even though the group test means of the individual components of conceptual understanding, interpreting, translating, mathematical modeling did not differ significantly, there is evidence that the two groups differed in their performance on conceptual understanding. It was shown that students learned algebra using graphing calculators view graphs more globally. The attitude survey assessed students' attitudes and perceptions about the value of mathematics, the usefulness of graphs in mathematics, mathematical confidence, mathematics anxiety, and their feelings about calculators. The overall t-test was not statistically significant, but the students in the treatment group showed significantly different levels of anxiety toward mathematics.

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Comparison of Differences in Levels per Group on Math Self-Regulated Learning Factors of High School Students (고등학생의 수학 자기조절 학습 요인에 대한 집단별 수준 차이 비교)

  • Yoo, Ki Jong
    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.21-37
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of the present study is to compare the differences in levels per group of high school students regarding the self-regulated learning factors for mathematics. For this purpose, a self-regulated learning measurement tool was developed and surveys were conducted. And the statistical analysis was completed using the frequency analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test, Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis H test. As a result, it is found that self-efficacy is of statistically significant differences in self-regulated learning levels regardless of the group classifications but test anxiety does not show statistically significant differences in self-regulated learning levels regardless of the group classifications.

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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The Changes of Mathematics Anxiety Shown Brain-Based Measurement through a Remedy Program for High School Students (심리적 처치프로그램에서 고등학교 학생들의 뇌파반응에 따른 수학불안의 변화)

  • Han, Se Ho;Choi-Koh, Sang Sook
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.205-224
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    • 2016
  • Nowadays technological instruments are advanced to measure brain waves called EEG. Also, it is important to find some facts that cause students to have mathematic anxiety (MA) and to provide remedy programs to lessen their MA in order to help students cure MA that could contribute to negative self-efficacy toward mathematics and mathematical learning. To find how they change the MA level, a small group of 11 high school students in Suwon city participated for ten weeks at the remedy program based on students' levels of MA diagnosed by MASS instrument (Ko, & Yi, 2011) and proofread by 8 advisors who worked in related research areas. The results showed that the remedy program was effective to lessen students' MA and it should provide a long term period since some negative experiences were accumulated for a long time of his or her past schooling by others such as teachers, peers, and parents. EEG showed that students got better scores on a percent of correct answers and a reaction time and some student' EEG from a group HMA became smaller heights and width in comparison of the other groups.