Communications of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회지시리즈E:수학교육논문집)

Korean Society of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회)
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Difficulty of understanding and using the number line by Elementary school students

초등학생의 수직선 이해와 사용의 어려움

  • Received : 2016.05.02
  • Accepted : 2017.01.04
  • Published : 2017.02.15
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate how elementary school students understand and use the number line relating number concept and what is the main problem in the learning process. For the efficient achievement of this purpose, we investigated how the number line metaphor is related to the number concept and considered the role of the number line on Freudenthal's number concept teaching theory. The test conducted to find the degree of understanding and difficulty on using the number line by actual elementary school students consisted of two questions ; to find appropriate number corresponding to the given number on the number line and to identify contents of chapters about the use of number line on each grade. It was found that many students couldn't solve the problem represented by the number line though they could solve the problem represented by other ways such as number track and pictures. The only difference between the two problems was the way of representation, and they had same contents and structure. This study tried to figure out the meaning of this phenomenon. Also, by using various teaching-learning method (number track, pictures, empty number line, and double number line etc.), this study was aimed to provide the way to help learning 'related number concept' and to solve the difficulty on understanding the number line.

본 연구는 초등학생들이 수 개념과 관련하여 수직선을 어떻게 이해하고 사용하는지, 또 그 학습의 어려움은 무엇인지 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 수직선 은유가 수 개념과 어떻게 관련되는지 살펴보았고, 프로이덴탈의 수 개념지도론에서 수직선의 역할에 대하여 고찰하였다. 실제 초등학생들의 수직선에 대한 이해와 사용의 어려움을 파악하기 위해 실시한 검사는 수직선에 주어진 위치에서 적절한 수를 대응시키는 문항과 학년별로 수직선이 활용되는 관련 단원 내용을 묻는 문항으로 이루어졌다. 같은 내용과 구조의 문항이지만 수직선으로 표현된 것은 해결하지 못하면서 수 트랙이나 다른 그림으로 표현된 것은 해결하는 학생들이 다수 관찰되었고, 본 연구에서는 이러한 현상의 의미를 해석하고자 하였다. 또한 다양한 교수-학습 자료(수 트랙, 그림, 빈 수직선, 이중 수직선등)를 활용하여 수직선 이해의 어려움을 보완하고 관련 수 개념 학습을 돕는 방안을 제안하였다.

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