Mathematics Education and Baccalauréat in France

From the view point of Math in Economy and Social sciences

Abstract

Recently, mathematics scholastic ability of Japanese students of university has been declining and it causes various problems. The reasons caused the current situation are largely considered as ①the current Math classes in high schools, ②a positioning of math at entrance exams. That is, the required subject is only math I or the math basics, subjects after mathematics II are optional, so, student does not learn mathematics enough. In addition, it might be pointed out that there is competency variance between universities and high schools, which means variance between math skill required at the economic/business faculties and its contents they learned in high schools. In this paper, We report investigation results about math education in France, from these points and consider mathematics education in Japan.