Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics (대한수학교육학회지:수학교육학연구)

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Beyond the Union of Rational and Irrational Numbers: How Pre-Service Teachers Can Break the Illusion of Transparency about Real Numbers?

유리수와 무리수의 합집합을 넘어서: 실수가 자명하다는 착각으로부터 어떻게 벗어날 수 있는가?

  • Received : 2015.06.04
  • Accepted : 2015.08.10
  • Published : 2015.08.31
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Abstract

The introduction of real numbers is one of the most difficult steps in the teaching of school mathematics since the mathematical justification of the extension from rational to real numbers requires the completeness property. The author elucidated what questions about real numbers can be unanswered as the "institutional didactic void" in school mathematics defining real numbers as the union of the rational and irrational numbers. The pre-service teachers' explanations on the extension from rational to real numbers and the raison d'$\hat{e}$tre of arbitrary non-recurring decimals showed the superficial and fragmentary understanding of real numbers. Connecting school mathematics to university mathematics via the didactic void, the author discussed how pre-service teachers could break the illusion of transparency about the real number.

유리수에서 실수로의 확장 혹은 무리수의 존재성을 수학적으로 정당화하기 위해서는 완비성 공리가 필요하므로, 실수의 도입은 학교수학에서 가장 가르치기 어려운 주제 중 하나이다. 이 연구에서는 실수를 '유리수와 무리수의 합집합'으로 정의하는 학교수학의 교수학적 변환이 어떠한 교수학적 공백을 남겨놓을 수 있는지를 살펴보고, 유리수에서 실수로의 수 체계 확장의 이유, 임의의 비순환 무한소수의 존재 이유 등에 대한 예비교사들의 설명을 분석하여 대학수학의 학습에도 불구하고 예비교사들의 실수에 대한 피상적인 이해를 구체적으로 확인하였다. 교수학적 공백을 인식하고 학교수학과 대학수학을 연결함으로서, 예비교사들이 실수 개념이 자명하다는 착각으로부터 어떻게 벗어날 수 있었는지를 논의하였다.

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