抄録
The new government course guidelines have been publicly notified for elementary and junior high schools in March 2017 and for high school in March 2018. Nowadays, the society is significantly changing and the changes are unpredictable. In order to respond to changes in the society, the ability to think how to make our society and life better as well as the ability to make it happen in reality, that is “vital energies”, should be developed. Especially, abilities and skills for collecting and analyzing data, solving problems, and making decisions should be cultivated. In the new government course guidelines, “Utilizing Data” is provided for elementary and junior high schools in one of four areas of mathematics, and “Analyzing Data” and “Statistical Inference” are provided for high school. Moreover, “Information and Data Science” is provided in informatics of high school curriculum. As a result, contents of statistical methods for solving a problem have been built into the new curriculums from elementary to high schools consistently. For maximally bring out the effect of new curriculum, cooperation of industry, government, and academia is indispensable. In order to work together and establish further collaborations for the better future society, the activities of TQE special committee such as “The 7th New Science Technology Education Forum” and Public Comments for the draft of curriculum guidelines as well as the plans for special features throughout this and the next issues are shown in this report.
