Many educators are focusing on the role of curriculum standards in education systems, and observers believe that Japan's challenging national math and science standards explain students' success in TIMSS. The standards set by the Japanese Educational Ministry for all students do indeed provide the framework for offering students challenging and interesting curricula in mathematics and science. Interesting material certainly makes a difference for attracting students' attention to learning.There is more, however, out the story of Japanese students' success. The Japanese Education Ministry highlights creating well-rounded students at the elementary and junior high school level through the various subject areas in the national curriculum. They set standard hours per subject in the national elementary school curriculum, emphasizing subjects such as music, arts and handicrafts, and homemaking, physical education, and moral education, as well as math and science. The standards also devote a large amount of time to Japanese language and life activities, a subject that gives younger students personal life experiences in preparation for classroom-oriented science. In life activities class, students in activities such as picking flowers, catching frogs and insects, raising rabbits, and watching falling stars.
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