Research on the 'Education of Arithmetic for Life' from the Relationship between "Life" and "Mathematical Thinking" : Focusing on Practices by Fujiwara Yasujiro

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  • 生活と数理の関係からみた生活算術に関する研究 : 藤原安治郎の算術教育に焦点をあてて
  • セイカツ ト スウリ ノ カンケイ カラ ミタ セイカツ サンジュツ ニ カンスル ケンキュウ フジワラ ヤスジロウ ノ サンジュツ キョウイク ニ ショウテン オ アテテ

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'Education of Arithmetic for Life' (EAL) was a new movement in the 1920s, and is a remarkable body of educational philosophy and practices, which represent the process of modernization of arithmetic education in Japan. The whole image of EAL is, however, not clear even today. The objective of this paper is to understand its process and diversity, by focusing on Fujiwara Yasujiro, who was one of the experts. Through analysis from the perspective of "life", "mathematical thinking", and their relationship, it could be found that his ideas and practices can be divided into four stages. In the first stage, he was not clearly conscious of mathematical thinking in arithmetic; in the second stage, he grasped ideas of life and mathematical thinking separately: in the third stage, he grasped their relationship as interdependent, by introducing the idea of function; and finally, in the fourth stage, he placed mathematical thinking as a central idea in life and insisted that acquisition of mathematical thinking was fundamental to the development of life skills.

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