Professor, Incheon National University
Dr. Jihyun Lee is a Professor of Mathematics Education at Incheon National University in South Korea. After starting her career as a high school mathematics teacher and earning her Ph.D. from Seoul National University, she has focused on preparing the next generation of teachers in both mathematics and pedagogy.
Her primary research addresses the “double discontinuity”; in mathematics teacher education, where she works on bridging the gap between school and university mathematics in topics such as limits, integrals, and real numbers. She also enjoys exploring how historical perspectives can be integrated into teaching to help pre-service teachers develop a more robust understanding of the subject.
In a separate line of research, she and her colleagues recently published a study on the design of “conditional tasks”; with uncertain elements, examining the effect of these tasks on student mindfulness, affect, and epistemological beliefs.
During her sabatical stay at UC Berkeley, she aims to design embodied calculus activity in the virtual reality enviroment to give undergraduates grounds for abstract calculus concepts.
Recent publications:
Lee, J., Yi, G., & Hwang, J. (2024). Cultivating mindfulness through conditional tasks in mathematics classrooms. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 117(3), 379–398.
Lee, J., Choi, Y. (2015). The scandals of geometry and school mathematics: The parallel postulate and the equality 0.999…=1. For the Learning of Mathematics, 35(1), 28–30.
Lee, J. (2014). How do pre-service teachers disprove 0.99….<1? Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics, 16(3), 493–504.
Lee, J. (2013). Imagining the reinvention of definitions: An analysis of lesson plays. School Mathematics, 15(4), 667–681.