계산테이블 프로그램 구안?적용이 수학과 학습부진아에게 미치는 영향

Abstract

Students' failure in mathematics and rejection symptoms for the mathematics as a subject make them give up mathematics learning. Such a tendency to give up mathematics learning have an great effect on students' mathematic achievement and cause under-achievement in mathematics. Compared with the other school subjects , especially under-achievement in mathematics have enormous influence on the learning in higher grades. So, accumulated shortage of learning becomes an important factor of mathematic under-achievement phenomenon. The subject for this study was the students of relatively poor academic ability the purpose of this study was to find the substantial methods which could help students to develop the positive attitude mathematics and to improve the academic achievement on mathematics by investigating and analyzing how much learning from calculation-table program affects the attitude toward mathematics and the academic achievement on mathematics. The research questions were established as follows. First, is there any difference in the various attitudes toward mathematics (the self-concept to a subject, the attitude to a subject, the study habits to a subject) between the group who learned by solving calculation-table program and the group who learned through traditional methods? Second, is there any difference in the academic achievements between the group who learned by solving calculation-table program and the group who learned through traditional methods? To solve these questions, nonequivalent control group design, as the plan for this experiment, was applied to this study. Experiment was conducted with 20 students (2 class- 10 in the control class, 10 in the mother class) of 2nd grade of K middle school locate at In-Cheon. The two group were given different types of learning. For example, the control group solved the problems step by step that I made, the mother group solved the example-types problems in the textbook repetitively. The unit studied in this experiment were the calculation of expression, letter and expression in the Mathematics 7-a), 8-a) and this experiment was executed for 5 weeks. In this study, the attitude test toward mathematics and the basic calculation ability test were taken as pretest toward mathematics and academic achievement test were taken as posttest. The result of the research were followed. First, the group who learned by solving calculation-table program, when it was compared with the group who learned through traditional methods, had no significant differences about the self-concept but had significant differences about the study habits toward a subject and in the toward a subject representing interests, an awareness of purpose and achievement motivation. Second, the group who learned by solving the calculation-table program was more effective in the academic achievement than the group who learned through traditional methods. In conclusion, learning from calculation-table program stimulated students' interest and achievement motivation and caused the positive change of attitude toward a subject and the improvement of academic achievement.