The Principle of the Coherent Mathematics Teaching Materials for Teacher Education

Karasawa Toshimitsu 
(University of Manchester, UK)

Abstract: This paper, as well as offering two- and three-dimensional figures as immediately usable educational materials to teachers of math from primary school through secondary school and sixth forms, also provides materials using four-dimensional through nth p-dimensional figures for university students hoping to become teachers and for teachers themselves taking part in in-service training. That is to say, the materials provided form, as a single group, a coherent system for primary schools through secondary schools, university students hoping to become teachers, and professional educators. In fact, I can report that, when presented in the course of a lecture at a teachers’ in-service training, these materials received good marks from the teachers present.

Key words: task design, teacher education, mathematics teaching materials