Teaching by Open-Approach Method in Japanese Mathematics Classroom.

Mathematics educators in Japan have traditionally emphasized mathematical perspectives in research and practice. This paper features an account of changes in mathematics education in Japan that focus on the possibilities of individual students as well as their mathematical ways of thinking. Students' mathematical thinking, mathematical perspectives, and teaching methods have been integrated as part of a mathematics education reform effort. (Contains 19 references.) (DDR) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY