Current Status and Issues of Use of Calculators in Elementary and Secondary Mathematics Education in Japan

Abstract

Use of Calculator and it with graphing capability have been paid attention and emphasized for more than twenty years. In this paper, the capabilities and its educational potentialities of recent calculators that are developed for mathematics education are analyzed and summarized. Current status of use of calculators in Japan is outlined and examined by the following resource: foreign curriculum documents, international surveys, courses of study of Japan, Japanese mathematics textbooks, Japanese mathematics education research. It is identified that use of calculators in Japanese mathematics education has tardy progressed. Factors against its implementation are investigated.