Abstract
The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
announced the latest courses of study for elementary schools and for junior high schools,
respectively, on March 28, 2008. The new courses of study will be enforced from 2011 in the
elementary schools, and from 2012 in the junior high schools. In addition, partial enforcement
of the new courses of study took effect in 2009.
We carried out fact-finding surveys of statistics education and statistical graph education in
elementary schools and junior high schools in 2008, as well as follow-up surveys of statistics
education in the elementary schools and the junior high schools in 2009. We summarize the
results of these surveys. And by comparing the two sets of surveys, we examine the influence
of the new courses of study on statistics education in the elementary schools and the junior
high schools.
