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Mathematics Teaching and Learning

South Korean Elementary Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching

  • Provides specific examples of how the teachers applied the various types of knowledge

  • Contains models illustrating the relationship among different types of knowledge for teaching mathematics

  • Includes a special chapter on the educational context of South Korea

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Rina Kim, Lillie R. Albert
    Pages 1-12
  3. A Pedagogical Overview of Relevant Literature

    • Rina Kim, Lillie R. Albert
    Pages 13-31
  4. Methodological Approaches

    • Rina Kim, Lillie R. Albert
    Pages 33-48
  5. Context of Elementary Mathematics Education in South Korea

    • Rina Kim, Lillie R. Albert
    Pages 49-61
  6. Summary, Conclusions, and Implications

    • Rina Kim, Lillie R. Albert
    Pages 137-148
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 149-152

About this book

The purpose of this research is to identify the categories of South Korean elementary teachers’ knowledge for teaching mathematics. Emerging from the data collected and the subsequent analysis are five categories of South Korean elementary teachers’ knowledge for teaching mathematics: Mathematics Curriculum Knowledge, Mathematics Learner Knowledge, Fundamental Mathematics Conceptual Knowledge, Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge, and Mathematics Pedagogical Procedural Knowledge. The first three categories of knowledge play a significant role in mathematics instruction as an integrated form within Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge. This study also demonstrated that Mathematics Pedagogical Procedural Knowledge might play a pivotal role in constructing Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge. These findings are connected to results from relevant studies in terms of the significant role of teachers’ knowledge in mathematics instruction.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Seoul Mogun Elementary School, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Rina Kim

  • Teacher Education, Boston College Lynch School of Education, Chestnut Hill, USA

    Lillie R. Albert

About the authors

Rina Kim has Ph. D in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College. She works as an elementary school teacher in South Korea and teaches courses in mathematics education at Seoul National University of Education. Her academic focus is mathematics education at the elementary level. Her research interests also include using technology to improve the quality of mathematics instruction. She has published her research in leading journals in her field and presented papers at major research conferences. Her other recent book is Reading, Writing, and Discussing at the Graduate Level: A Guidebook for International Graduate Students coauthored with Lillie R. Albert and Hang Gyun Sihn.

Lillie R. Albert, an associate professor at Boston College Lynch School of Education, has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the influence that sociocultural historic contexts have on learning and development of learners across the lifespan. Her specialization includes the exploration of the relationship between the teaching and learning of mathematics and the use of cultural and communicative tools to develop conceptual understanding of mathematics, which includes collaborating with mathematics education scholars at Seoul National University of Education, Seoul, South Korea to explore government policies in supporting the preparation of mathematics teachers. She has published her research in leading national and international journals in her field and presented papers at major research conferences. Her other recent books are Rhetorical Ways of Thinking: Vygotskian Theory and Mathematical Learning, in collaboration with Danielle Corea and Vittoria Macadino and Reading, Writing, and Discussing at the Graduate Level: A Guidebook for International Graduate Students coauthored with Rina Kim and Hang Gyun Sihn.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mathematics Teaching and Learning

  • Book Subtitle: South Korean Elementary Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching

  • Authors: Rina Kim, Lillie R. Albert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13542-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13541-0Published: 07 April 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36615-9Published: 06 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13542-7Published: 24 March 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 152

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction

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eBook USD 39.99
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