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When do we become ‘fools’? ‘When I first met the fountain’ ‘When someone keeps mixing salt water’ ‘When Cheol-soo and Young-hee run at different speeds’… . It’s a joke going around the internet, but it’s also a real situation. According to the results of a survey of 3707 elementary, middle, and high school students and 390 teachers last year by the educational civic group World Without Worries about Private Education (Sageobse), a number of teachers said that the third grade division and He pointed out fractions and the four arithmetic operations of fractions leading to the 5th and 6th grades. Accordingly, 11.6% of the 6th graders of elementary school considered themselves to be a bully, and 44.9% answered that they were under emotional stress due to mathematics. In the past, ‘supoja’ could go to liberal arts and live without mathematics after graduating from high school, but in the so-called 4th industrial revolution era, liberal arts students must study coding or artificial intelligence to get a job. From kindergarten to high school students, we introduce textbooks that allow you to explore the structure of mathematics in a wide range while enjoying mathematics.
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Wake up the sleeping math classroom, an alternative math textbook
Following Korea’s first alternative mathematics textbook for middle school published in 2020, an alternative mathematics textbook for high school was also published. The recently published (Published by Viaedu) is an alternative mathematics textbook published by the Innovation Center for Mathematics Education. Whereas existing math textbooks require students to memorize formulas with introductory explanations and then continue to solve problems, this textbook continues to ask questions related to life, forcing students to contemplate solutions or formulas to find answers on their own. This textbook is the result of two years of brainstorming by 19 incumbent math teachers and mathematics education experts to create a future-oriented textbook that is beneficial to the entrance exam for the CSAT in the long run and that can develop mathematical thinking skills linked to life. After having 1,500 students from 8 schools directly use the completed experimental version from 2021 to 2022, the final version reflecting the feedback is being sold on the market from the beginning of this year. The first characteristic of is to return the initiative of learning to the student through the process of finding answers to questions. Second, since it starts with questions related to middle school math concepts and leads to higher concepts, it allows you to organize from middle school concepts. Third, through the process of discovering mathematics rather than learning it, students can enjoy mathematical creativity, thinking ability, and a sense of achievement and growth. Although it is good for individual students to solve this textbook alone, it is much more effective to solve it while sharing opinions through group activities during school math class. Teachers who have used this book as a textbook for math class agree on a noticeable change. Baek Mi-seon, a teacher at Uncheon High School in Gyeonggi Province, said, “Students have undergone remarkable changes while taking classes with this book. Choi Min-ki, a teacher at Somyeong School in Gyeonggi Province, said, “I learned that high school math classes, which were not boldly challenged due to the entrance exam, can change.” I could see it,” he said. The reaction of the students is also hot. Dahee Kim, a student at Tongyeong Girls’ High School in Gyeongsangnam-do, said, “I learned ‘real math’ to understand concepts and processes, not math to find answers, while taking classes with this book.” I have been waiting for this,” he said. Lee Hwi-young, a student at Somyeong School in Gyeonggi Province, said, “I felt a sense of accomplishment in mathematics for the first time while studying with this book.” “The fact that I can learn mathematics with a smile by experiencing that my thinking skills have expanded through open questions and that concepts are completed with my own expression. came to know,” he said. Choi Soo-il, head of the Center for Innovation in Mathematics Education, said, “Mathematics is not a discipline that is completely separated from our lives, and even if we learn mathematics until the age of 20, we do not have the opportunity to directly use what we have learned in mathematics in our life because of an infusion-style education without a process of asking questions and thinking.” He said, “This textbook contains a wealth of good questions for students, and it is also a textbook for teachers who became math teachers to teach mathematics, but who are unable to teach mathematics and only solve problems, can find their identity as real mathematics teachers.” Explained.
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Classroom Mathematics Meets Artificial Intelligence
According to the ‘2022 revised curriculum’, artificial intelligence education will be strengthened in elementary, middle and high schools from 2025. The working principle of artificial intelligence is mathematics. If engines drive machines, mathematics drives artificial intelligence. The (published by Junior Kim Young-sa) series is a textbook that started with the idea of ’can we help kindergarten or elementary school children understand the principles of artificial intelligence in an easy and fun way by linking them with mathematics?’ In other words, classroom mathematics learned at school helps students understand the principles of artificial intelligence. The series consists of 4 books, each for pre-elementary school, 1st to 2nd grade of elementary school, 3rd to 4th grade of elementary school, and 5th to 6th grade of elementary school. You can understand the principles of artificial intelligence by attaching stickers, drawing pictures, and playing cards while following the story. If you are a friend who has already learned math, it is better to follow along while recalling what you have learned. If you look at a math textbook and this textbook side by side, you can figure out that this textbook contains artificial intelligence elements. This series was created by Park Man-goo, a professor of mathematics education at Seoul National University of Education who served as the president of the Korean Association for Mathematical Education, together with four current elementary school teachers. Professor Park Man-gu, who also teaches AI Science Convergence Major at the Seoul Graduate School of Education, said, “The US spends 100 hours learning artificial intelligence and the UK spends 200 hours learning artificial intelligence. Because we will live in this universalized society, if we know the principles of artificial intelligence well, we will be able to use them efficiently,” he said. “If you study mathematics while thinking about it, you can create a synergistic effect to know that the principle of mathematics is like this.” A guidance guidebook for teachers and parents who guide children is also included as an appendix. If you study together by referring to the guidebook, you can lead children to the world of artificial intelligence full of curiosity.
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How to learn math in Finland
Finland is an educational powerhouse that has ranked first in the International Assessment of Student Achievement (PISA) several times without private tutoring, homework, or a competitive exam system. In particular, unlike Korea, many students find studying enjoyable and being mentioned as an alternative education model, Finland’s mathematics education is also attracting the attention of Korean parents. (Publication of mind) The 1st to 6th grade series was completed at the end of last year with the publication of 5th to 6th grade textbooks after the publication of textbooks for 1st to 2nd graders in 2020. This textbook is a translation of a mathematics textbook used by more than 60% of Finnish elementary schools, and reflects Finland’s latest national curriculum. The special feature of Finnish mathematics textbooks is that they do not require memorization of mathematical formulas by making them discover and understand mathematical structures. In fact, Finnish students solve problems by understanding the principle of the multiplication table without memorizing the multiplication table at all, and this textbook also reflects this philosophy of mathematics education. In addition, it inspires learning of mathematics with pictures rich in mathematical stories and understands mathematical concepts through play mathematics using teaching aids. In particular, it is a spiral mathematics textbook that repeatedly expands while reviewing previously learned concepts to learn new concepts. In Finland, where homeschooling has developed, this textbook is made so that you can study math alone at home, so it is much thicker than our textbooks and contains all problems of arithmetic, descriptive, application and deepening, and thinking skills. In Korea, more than 100,000 copies have been sold so far thanks to word of mouth among parents and academies interested in Finnish education. It was supervised by the Finnish Math Education Research Association in Korea and was selected as a recommended book by the National Math Teachers’ Association.
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Math study methods for middle and lower students
If you are a middle school student, you will be more interested in math study methods than math textbooks. Among the dozens of textbooks in bookstores, you may be wondering which textbook is right for you, what is the study method that can increase efficiency, and how children who are good at math study. Ryoo Seung-jae, a math instructor who published the best-selling book (published by Blue Moose) that sold more than 100,000 copies, recently published a book on how to study math for students who study math on their own without private tutoring or who are afraid of becoming a loser. (published by Kyunghyang BP) teaches efficient and correct study methods for middle and low-ranking students to enter the upper ranks. If <#> tells you the right way to study mathematics and the principles of developing mathematical thinking skills, <#> tells you specific details of math study, such as how to study concepts, how to solve problems, how to organize incorrect answers, how to use commentary sheets, and how to memorize efficiently. If you go to an academy, you can get tips on how to choose a good math academy, and if you study alone, you can get tips on what roadmap to study. Ari Kim, guest reporter ari@hani.co.kr
