IDEAS OF OPEN-APPROACH METHOD Openi

IDEAS OF OPEN-APPROACH METHOD
Opening Up the Hearts of Students Toward Mathematics
All of the educational activities should open a student's present-day learning to his/her future learning.There by,the student can acquire necessary qualifications to make his/her life successful. Even in school mathematics,we should take into account that every student is encouraged to seek his/her own way of life, and has whole mind and body to contribute to his/her community with full force on the basis of mathematical sense, knowledge, skills, the ways of thinking, and so on. Therefore,we should ensure the maximum opportunity and the best environment of learning inany kinds of educational activities as possible. However, it is clear that most students cannot necessarily learn the content of more than the middle grades, because of the "hard"characteristics of school mathematics (its structural, abstract, and conventional phases), even though they can easily learn the content of the lower grades by themselves(Nohda, 1982). Therefore, the appropriate teaching is necessary especially in school mathematics