Practical Research on the Elementary Mathematics Lesson Related to Moral Education: Through the Problem Solving of Organizing Teams Based on Fairness

Abstract

　　 The purpose of this study is to develop elementary mathematics lessons which associate with moral education.

　　 We developed a teaching material based on series of studies on building of social values in elementary mathematics proposed by Shimada & Baba (2013a, 2013b, 2014).  We adopted five characteristics of socially  open-ended problem in elementary mathematics introduced by Shimada & Baba (2014) in order to cultivate moral values which are a part of composition of social values in elementary mathematics.  The teaching material developed in this research is “the  problem of organizing teams”.

　　 We conducted a lesson of this teaching material for third graders at the elementary school in order to investigate its effectiveness.  As a result of analysis, it was confirmed that students expressed the values of fairness through solving this problem and the lesson had a possibility of building them.