What does the coming mathematics education seek out of the use of the computer?

Abstract

the internet and other technology joining the computer, school education is grouping its way, pressed with its further attempts to set up the new education, we wonder where the direction of the use of the computer is going. When the computer was brought in to school first, mathematics started putting it to good use the most enthusiastically among other school subjects. However, now, is the so-called internet or multi-media age, we have heard teachers carrying actual teaching loads say that they hardly use the computers in arithmetic or mathematics class compared to other subjects. Now is high time for us to consider how computer should be concerned in mathematics education. A deadlock in the use of the computer in part comes largely from the fact that we have got our way dragged by computer performance while learning the contents of mathematics education almost the same as before without questioning what new mathematics should be. In this study, we reexamine the contents of mathematics education from the viewpoints of pupil's cognitive development, the changes in society and the development of mathematics. And, as an approach to provide insights on new mathematics, let us suggest mathematics education as a basis for the new learning exactly living is society now, such as computer science, discrete mathematics, mathematical science, applied mathematics and others.

2. The research experiments
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(3) Approximation and of data by function forecasts of Olympic records (for junior high school students)