Technology Usage in Mathematics Education in China

In this short note, we give a brief introduction to the status of technology usage in mathematics education in China. We first introduce the government’s effort to build the infrastructure for CAI. Then we discuss representative CAI software systems developed in China. Finally we discuss efforts to integrate technology and education in middle schools, and curriculum developments. 1 Infrastructure Development In the past ten years, the Chinese government has made a great effort to push forward the usage of information technology in education, as the following show [2]. 1. Building technological infrastructure for middle and high school, including computer labs, campus internet, and city-wide educational internet connections. In the period from 2000 to 2004, the number of computers in the schools increased from 1.1 million to 6 million; the number of schools with school internet increased to fifty thousand; and the educational city-wide internet covered over four hundred cities.