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An Attempt at improving some verbal Expressions in Mathematics Education

Research Project

Project/Area Number 01580284
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 科学教育(含教育工学)
Research InstitutionCHUO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

MORI Masao  Chuo Univ. Math.Dept. Full-Time Lect., 理工学部, 専任講師 (30055181)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) AOKI Kazuyoshi  Chuo Univ. Math.Dept. Assistant Prof., 理工学部, 助教授 (50055159)
SEKINO Kaoru  Chuo Univ. Math.Dept. Professor, 理工学部, 教授 (40054994)
Project Period (FY) 1989 – 1991
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1991: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
KeywordsNECESSARY CONDITION / SUFFICIENT CONDITION / LOGICAL EXPRESSION / TWISTED TRANSLATION / AMBIGUOUS EXPRESSIONS / DIFFICULT EXPRESSIONS / 数学教育 / 多義表現 / 翻訳語 / 論証 / 条件 / ため / 必要 / 論証の日本語 / 条件と状態 / 必要条件と十分条件
Research Abstract

Recent experiments prepared by the author have shown that more than 90% of the subjects of the experiments think they themselves do not have satisfactory understanding about "the necessary condition and the sufficient condition" given in Japanese. These Materials are usually taught in the tenth grade in Japan. And most of our subjects are 1st and/or 2nd grade science course students of two private universities located in. The metropolitan area. Our experiments also revealed that more than 70% of the subjects bear a correct memory of the statement, however, more than 80% were not confident about the validity of their own memory. It means that they know no measure to check their memory.
Most of teachers or authors of mathematical textbooks seem to be aware of this kind of students' perplexities caused by the description. Nevertheless, the present author thinks that a large part of their interest is to accustom students to the usage rather than to try to give alternative good expressions.
He proposes a concrete procedure, namely to provide improved expressions, and intends to diminish this kind of students' hardship.
He discusses the typical case where the following statements are valid:
(1) q is a necessary condition for p.
(2) p is a sufficient condition for q.
and introduces as usual, subsets P and Q of some large set U, which are characterized by the conditions p and q, respectively, and are consequently supposed to satisfy the relation PCQ.
Our experiments pointed out that students' central complaint about the Japanese counterpart of the sentences (1) and (2) is that it is hard for them to discern between the necessary condition and the sufficient condition even when they clearly understand the inclusion relation PCQ.
Our proposed texts for the definition of these conditions have been tested to show that they help more than 40% of our subjects to grasp the meaning of the conditions and to distinguish them.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1991 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1990 Annual Research Report
  • 1989 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (1 results)

All Other

All Publications (1 results)

  • [Publications] 石井 仁司 関口 力 関野 薫 松山 善男: "微分積分学" 開成出版, 253 (1992)

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    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary

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Published: 1989-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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