Tuesday 02/Sep/2025 – 08:07 PM
This morning, in an educational step, the first of its kind in 8 years, the Ministry of Education and Technical Education announced the presentation of a book of mathematics for the first grade of primary school with a developed approach and dependent on Japanese standards in education, in cooperation with the specialized Japanese “Spriks” company.
The ministry confirmed that teaching mathematics as a “independent subject” comes for the first time for first -grade primary students, after it was taught in a unified content in the past years, which represents a qualitative shift aimed at building a proper scientific basis for students from a young age.
Cairo 24 presents the most prominent new mathematics curriculum:
It depends on the Japanese model in the teaching of mathematics for children.
It focuses on basic skills and simplifying mathematical concepts.
It takes into account the individual differences between students.
Designed with a methodology that encourages critical thinking and learning pleasure.
Egyptian students will study the same content taught to their peers in Japan.
Minister of Education: First Primary Students will study what their peers are studying in Japan in the mathematics curriculum
For his part, Mohamed Abdel -Latif, Minister of Education and Technical Education, stressed that the book of the developed mathematics curriculum in cooperation with the Japanese side will be available to the children of Egypt in the first grade of primary who will study what their peers studies in Japan, adding that Japanese thought depends on interest in basic skills, taking into account individual differences between children, simplifying science and achieving the pleasure of learning.
The minister pointed out that the new curricula that were developed are characterized by simplicity, and are presented in a manner that encourages students to demand learning, and makes them find pleasure and benefit without feeling alienated or boredom.
Minister Mohamed Abdel -Latif pointed out that cooperation with the Japanese side reflects the Egyptian state’s keenness to develop education according to the latest global systems, noting that the introduction of new curricula in accordance with the Japanese thought in mathematics is a qualitative shift in building students ’capabilities and developing their skills in line with the requirements of the times.
