Abstract
Globalization is now in progress based on information technology in our society. Education is a social endeavor from the preceding generation to the following generation, and this social change demands inevitably for change in education. Mathematics is embedded in the basis of information technology, but the more it relies on information technology the more impossible it becomes to grasp the whole image. Human beings increase dependency on information society, and on the other hand, it becomes more impossible to understand its basis. Keitel (1997) calls this imbalance "mathematized society and de-mathematized people", and attracts attention to the fragile relation between human beings and society. This research analyzes formation of mathematical literacy, which is required in such a society, from open-end approach and values, and clarifies its possibilities and issues.
