Abstract
In the study of arithmetic and mathematics, it is very important to observe
familiar phenomena and to model them from the mathematical point of view. For this
purpose, many teaching materials have been provided so far, and its importance has
been shown. This sort of activities of students always accompanies trial and error. By
repeating trial and error, students accumulate a lot of experiences which make further
improvement and progress. Their teaching materials have been practiced in the elective
subjects and integrated studies. But, the new Guidelines for Course of study say that
the total number of classes of elective subjects and integrated studies should reduce and
that of required subjects should increase. Therefore, in near future, we need to practice
the teaching materials mentioned above in the required subjects. In this paper, we make
up “blowgun darts” as a mathematics teaching material in the required subject, so that
students can experience the usefulness of mathematics. We report the practice of program
“Mathematics in Blowgun Darts”.