Communications of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회지시리즈E:수학교육논문집)

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A study on understanding of differentiation

미분의 이해에 대한 연구

  • Oh, Hye-Young (Department of Mathematics Education, Incheon National University)
  • Received : 2017.10.21
  • Accepted : 2018.03.28
  • Published : 2018.05.15
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Abstract

Differentiation with integration is an important subject which is widely applied in mathematics, natural science, and engineering. Derivative is an important concept of differentiation. But students don't understand its concept well and concentrate on acquiring only the skill to solve the standardized calculus problem. So they are poor at understanding of the concept of differentiation. In this study, after making a survey of differentiation on college students, we try to analyze errors which appeared in solving differentiation problem and investigate mathematics process of limiting process inherent in the derivative and historical development about derivative. Thus, we try to analyze the understanding of differentiation and present the results about this.

미분학은 적분학과 더불어 수학, 자연과학, 공학 등에서 널리 응용되는 중요한 분야이다. 도함수는 미분학의 중요 개념인데, 학생들은 이것의 개념을 제대로 파악하지 않은 채 정형화된 계산 문제를 푸는 기능 습득에만 치중하고 있어 미분에 대한 개념적 이해는 매우 빈약한 상태이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 학부 학생들을 대상으로 미분에 대한 설문조사를 실시하여, 미분학 문제를 풀 때 나타난 오류를 분석하고 도함수에 내재한 극한과정의 수학화 과정과 도함수에 대한 역사적 발달과정을 살펴보고자 한다. 이 과정을 통해 미분의 이해도를 분석하고 이에 대한 결과를 제시하고자 한다.

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