In order for students to adopt well and live together in the rapidly chaninging society, it is necessary to grow the basic knowledges such as language, mathematical knowledge, digital knowledges suggested by 2020 revised educational courses and other competencies such as self-management, knowledge and information processing, creative thinking, aesthetic sensibility, cooperative communication and community competency.
Creative experience activity prepared to help the overall development of students allows to help the overall development of students and to prepare what the era desires to have. With such a method, the opportunity should be prepared for the positive attitude toward mathematics so that the students are familiar with mathematics and want to learn it. In addition, the chance to think of, communicate and cooperate is needed for students to solve the problem with friends.
Accordingly, this study has reviewed the student specific, case specific change in affective characteristics of students who experienced various typed experience centered math club activity targeting the high school students. The affective characteristics are divided into the attitude towards mathematics and collaboration ability. The interest in mathematics, confidence in mathematics, and recognition of the value of mathematics are defined as the components of attitude of mathematics while the consideration, sense of sharing and the sense of responsibility are defined as the components of cooperation ability.
The change of students was significant through various experience centered math club activities such as movie watching, Saturday special lectures, one night two days math camp, Jeju math festival, in-depth club presentation, National Institute of Mathematical Sciences and school festivals. They not only show the learning conation themselves after understanding the concept which they failed to understand during the class through activities but also search other math related movies themselves after watching movie, and continued the learning by connecting it to the theme of small thesis, as such they showed various aspects. In addition, saying “I should do it first”, they shows consideration, sharing to others, sharing through communication and the sense of responsibility to do the best effort for the tasks given such as organizing what others are reluctant to do it, taking the lead and showing the sense of responsibility, calmly explaining to the friends who are slow in understanding, sharing what they realized through experience to the friends generously and explaining that mathematics deserves to challenge.
Departing from the text centered and the knowledge focused education, various typed experiences have contributed to the improvement of cooperation ability as well as expressing own thinking correctly and respecting other’s thinking.
In addition, the improved participation in club activity has increased the interest on mathematics, and this has positively affected to the learning conation of mathematics and the career decision naturally. The improved cooperation ability that shares the common value and goals and helps them plays a positive role in enhancing the sprit of community, and one step further, helps the discovery of own ability and aptitude, and can lead the positive recognition change about learning.