본 연구에서는 시간 지도 개선에 관한 시사점을 찾고자 한국, 싱가포르, 일본의 초등학교 수학교과서를 비교 분석하였다. 연구 결과에 따르면, 우리나라는 두 나라에 비해 시간의 덧셈과 뺄셈의 사칙 계산과 그 알고리즘이 강조되고 있었다. 또한 두 나라에 비해 시간 지도 요소 항목이 많이 편이었으며, 소재와 시계 모형에 있어서도 유사한 것들이 반복 사용되고 있었다. 마지막으로 시간의 흐름이 적게 반영되어 있었다.
Our country has excessive amount of learning per hour compared with Japan and Singapore. And as there is no consistence for definition of time between grades, it deteriorates understanding of students. Our country teaches students focusing on time algorism whereas Japan and Singapore teaches their students focusing on flow of time. In composing of mathematics textbook in Korea, Japan and Singapore, textbook of our country contains far more of learning compared with the amount designated in textbooks. Textbooks of Japan contains less teaching elements, but instead it contains much activities to expedite time sense As time is distributed in activities of students, it is more important to construct textbooks with experience of students rather than algorism approaches. In addition, textbooks of Singapore contains various examples and clarified concepts compared with those of our country. Like above, time teaching deployment methods of Japan and Singapore gives us good lessons for teaching time in our country, and it is expected be good reference for future development of our textbooks.
