A study of the area education in the elementary school (part 1)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the effective learning to understand the concept of the area in the elementary mathematics. In Japan, the school mathematics tends to be inclined to numerical calculation. Because of that, it is generally said that the students have less opportunities to understand various concepts of mathematics. This would be considerable issues of students developing further mathematical thinking. One such example is the concept of the area. In terms of the area education, on the one hand, students develop the numeral calculation skills. On the other hand, they do not deeply understand the concept of the area. In response to this, we developed teaching materials and methods, and had the classroom practices. As a result, we confirmed that the teaching materials and methods elevate the students to understand the concept, and it leads to the understanding of the concept of the integral calculus in high school mathematics.