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The College of Education

Department of Mathematics Education

Introduction

The department aims at providing an academic background for students pursuing careers in teaching mathematics. We prepare highly capable prospective secondary school teachers by training them to have knowledge of mathematics and teaching skills. The detailed objectives are to prepare:

  1. 1. Well-trained professionals who have a wide scientific knowledge in the various fields of mathematics
  2. 2. Innovative professionals who have systematic teaching abilities by training them in logical and analytical thinking
  3. 3. Excellent professionals who can conduct independent research in Mathematics Education.

This department also supervises and sponsors the Research Association of Mathematics Education and Technology (RAMET). This creates a great variety of output to be utilized in Engineering Education for Mathematics with initiatives to develop instruction methods and to introduce innovative approaches to teaching mathematics at secondary school level.

Currently, the department has five outstanding professors who majored in Analysis, Algebra, Geometry, and Mathematics Education. They provide advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in these diverse fields of mathematics, leading students to become accomplished experts.

History

The Department of Mathematics Education was established in October 1981 and the current yearly enrollment is 30. Since our first graduation in 1986, we have been continuously preparing competent secondary school math teachers and over 600 have graduated as of now. Most graduates are working as math teachers in public and private secondary schools, as research fellows, or as professionals in the corporate sector.

Job Prospects

Most of our graduates are teachers at secondary school level. They have found employment all across the nation, including Daegu, Ulsan, Incheon, Gyeongbuk, and Gyeonggi. Some have completed graduated school and are working as professors while others are employed at research institutes and business corporations.

The strength of the department is that many well-educated graduates have passed the teacher certification examination. In 2012, fifteen students passed the national examination for public middle schools and high schools and six students became teachers at private secondary schools. One student who graduated from our department in 2011 recorded the highest national examination score in the Daegu school district. Our graduates are skilled teachers whose expertise is based on in-depth mathematical knowledge and a passion for student guidance.

Faculty

  • Jin Hwan Kim, Professor

    - Yeungnam Univ., Geometry

    kimjh@ynu.ac.kr
  • Park Sun Yong, Professor

    - Seoul National Univ., mathematics education

    polya@yu.ac.kr
  • Cho,Cheong-Soo, Professor

    - Oregon State Univ. , Mathematics Education

    chocs@ynu.ac.kr
  • Choi, Youngook, Professor

    - Univ. of California at Riverside, Algebra

    ychoi824@yu.ac.kr
  • LIU WENTING, International Research Professor

    - Yeungnam university

    lwting@yu.ac.kr

※ sorted by the position and Korean name

Curriculum

Department Of Mathematics Education

Curriculum
1-1
CALCULUS I
Calculus(1) covers the following: Sequences, limits and continuity of functions of single variable, derivatives, properties of derivatives, differentiation rules, higher order derivatives, applications of derivatives, definite integrals, indefinite integrals, properties of integrals, integration rules, applications of integrals, infinite series power series.
1-1
SEMINAR FOR ACADEMIC LIFE
1. Summary of the course This course is to assist university freshmen in CRM designing to adapt university life well through the instruction and counselling of supervising professor. (This course is composed of self analysis, personality type test, career research, instruction for the success of university life, career plan and direction setting, CRM designing method and CRM designing. The course should be teaching in classes of the students by supervising professor.) 2. Course objectives This course is to motivate the students before the mid term exam and provide students with self analysis, personality type test (MBTI or TCI) and career research (YAT test). Also, this course shall has a plan to instruct the students to enhance the efficiency of university life through career and time management. In addition, this course is to make a chance for the students to have practical assistance to university life by providing study method, report designing strategy and the information on academic system and various kinds of internal programs of the university. After the mid term exam, the students will be instructed to set the direction of career designing through continuous counselling of supervising professor and the students will be able to establish CRM designing and execution plan.
1-1
SOFTWARE AND AI
Software and AI (Artificial Intelligence) course aims to educate the basic concepts of software and computational thinking to use them in various applications. It allows students of various majors to experience the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, such as big data, machine learning, and AI. It also introduces various applications of AI so that students can easily apply these technologies to their field of study. This course classifies the lecture types into three categories, and adjust the lecture difficulty according to the student's academic ability.
1-1
STATISTICS(1)
This course defines events and probabilities, conditional probabilities and independence to evaluate probabilities. Elementary probability distributions such as binomial distribution, geometric distribution, Poisson distribution, and normal distribution are also introduced. The concepts of sample distribution of the statistic and the central limit theorem are introduced. The statistical inference including estimation and hypothesis testing of the mean and the standard deviation will be discussed.
1-1
INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION
This course is an introductory course in Education for prospective teachers, regardless of their major and/or special subjects. This is one of the necessary requirements for teacher candidates being educated in colleges other than the college of education in Korea. The course is to study the various paradigms and concepts of education, representing different views on aim, content and method of education. A particular emphasis is given to identifying theoretical questions of education in order to grasp the problems of Korean education and find out their solutions.
1-2
CALCULUS II
Calculus(2) covers the following: vector valued functions, curves in spaces, limits and continuity of functions of multi variables, partial derivatives, properties of partial derivatives, partial differentiation rules, higher order partial derivatives, applications of partial derivatives, double and triple integrals, properties of multiple integrals, applications of multiple integrals, line integrals, Green's theorem, surface integrals, Stokes' theorem, divergence theorem.
1-2
COMMUNICATION SKILL
The ability to communicate effectively in speaking and writing is one of the most important skills for educational and career success. This course gives students opportunities to discuss, practice, and eventually master the skills involved in oral and written communication. The topics include theory and practice of effective communication, making speeches, presentation skills, principles of persuasion, and writing skills.
1-2
KOREAN HISTORY
This lecture treats total Korean history internationally and help Koreans to have necessary knowledge and to establish their own identity in order to play in a global socity. This lecture is formed to assist people who study history for entering various government's organizations and large companies or Korean history cerification test.
1-2
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE
This course is to cultivate community sense as members of society and the global village for students in order to develop the basic knowledge required as global citizens. Especially, this course is to foster the spirit of cooperation, sharing, service, and creativity and study the social contribution and leadership to solving the challenges the global community faces. As a liberal arts course, it is centered to nurture a leader having the global capability to contribute to community development through learning the knowledge and the case on the value & logic of social responsibility focused on environmental preservation, social contribution, and good governance(ESG). This course aims to foster a generous mind, learn knowledge and technology and build the capacity to contribute to building a society towards a safer and happier world through the study of theory and practice.
1-2
DATA SCIENCES AND STATISTICS EDUCATION
In line with the era of big data, this subject improves the statistical knowledge necessary for pre-service teachers. By addressing Bayesian statistics as well as traditional descriptive statistics and exploratory data analysis, this subject deals with stochastic updating processes based on the accumulation of data and information. In addition, these entire contents are related to statistical education in secondary schools. Specifically, conditional probabilities and distributions, Bayesian theorem and probability distributions, Bayesian paradigms, and inference will be dealt with.
1-2
SET THEORY
Set theory treats the classes and sets, functions, relations, partially ordered sets, the Axiom of choice and related equivalent principles, and cardinalities of sets and the natural number.

Contact

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