A Comparative Study on the Contents of“Statistics and Probability”in High School Mathematics Textbooks in China and Japan:A Case Study of textbooks by PEP(A) and Japanese Mathematics Research Publishing House

The contents of“Statistics and Probability” of high school mathematics textbooks, published by the People’s
Education Press, and the textbook of“Japan’s Shuyan edition” are chosen as the research subjects and a comparative study was conducted to compare the number, breadth and processing of knowledge points. It is found: (1)In the number of knowledge points, Chinese textbooks surpass the Japanese ones. (2)From the textbook content, the two textbooks focus more on proba- bility than on statistics. (3) in the handling of knowledge points, the Chinese textbooks pursue more of the rigidity of the defi- nition, while the Japanese textbooks put more emphasis on the internal links of the mathematics knowledge, highlighting the integrated whole of mathematics.