수학교과에서 관계적이해를 위한 소프트웨어활용에 관한연구

Abstract

ABSTRACT

A Study on Software Application for Relational Understanding in Mathematics Subject

Kim Kyoung Hee Advisor : Prof. Ahn Young Joon Major in Mathematics Education Graduate School of Education, Chosun University

Students in junior or high school have been intensively studying Mathematics. They have studied it only to improve their grade or to enter an advanced school, so they just memorized formalities and pattern of subjects in spite of the fact that Mathematics is a subject and a method of understanding. The present situation of education is to memorize formalities and pattern of subjects which are far away from developing an intelligence or contemplative faculty. To solve the problem, computer system was used to investigate whether it helps student understand Mathematics or not. We set research problems as follows;

. How well do students understand about mathematical function before activity course using computer system?

. How well do students understand about mathematical function of formula and graph in a mathematical unit during activity course using computer system?

. How well do students understand about mathematical function after activity course using computer system?

According to the study, we executed activity course four times against 35 people of a high school freshman for about three weeks. To understand the graphs of the quadratic and cubic functions more easily, we use the computer software, such as Green Globs and Graphing Equations. As a result of this test, we expect that the lesson of computer software promote the understanding of graphs of functions.