抄録
The real aspect concerning the past educational efforts in various regions in Japan is not clarified enough up to now. Last year a variety of materials of Wakayama Normal School in the Meiji era were found, organized and opened. These mateirals consist of three kinds of documents, which find out the actual contents of mathematics instructions, especially geometry. They are geometry test problems, the school syllabi, and the weekly record of lessons, which were made around the time of the first national syllabus in 1910, the late Meiji era. Three aspects of geometry education which contains the curriculum, textbooks and test problems at that time are examined and several interesting facts were found as follows. First, geometry was taught at the normal school as strictly as secondary schools in the Meiji era. It means that normal schools had a part of the role of the secondary education.
Second, before the first national syllabus was established, normal schools flexibly made changes in the curriculum according to the actual conditions of their students. After the establishment of national syllabus, the teachers swiftly prepared teaching plans under the syllabus, and continued to reform them.
