Abstract
How to construe the function of mathematics education in the context of compulsory education? How to make mathematics education cope with the needs of compulsory education? How to implement innovations in mathematics education? These are the questions studies more often recently. On the basis of analysis and investigation of documents on mathematics education in several different countries and regions, this paper attempts a preliminary exploration of these questions from three aspects: clarifying the relationship in the objectives between mathematics education and compulsory education with the recognition of mathematics education as a component in the enhancement of basic qualities of citizens and of innovation mathematics education as for the development of the majority of students, understanding the relationship between mathematics education and students' development in order to enable students to have the appropriate development through mathematics education, and achieving a better, connection between primary and secondary mathematics education and considering holistically the aims , contents and methods by taking primary and secondary mathematics education as an integrated whole.
| Keywords: | compulsory education; mathematics education; educational reform |
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