Due to the rapidly changing situation, junior high school curriculum needs new and innovative changes. Thus, in January 1999, Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development announced the Seventh National School Curriculum for the junior high scho...
Due to the rapidly changing situation, junior high school curriculum needs new and innovative changes. Thus, in January 1999, Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development announced the Seventh National School Curriculum for the junior high school textbook which would be used from 2001. The Seventh National School Curriculum requires the change from 'monotonous editing system centering on the textbook' to 'various editing system centering on the curriculum.' Even though new textbook necessarily is faithful to its original contents, the role of editing design which gives visual effect to the textbook is also getting important. This study presents the analysis and evaluation of the textbooks on mathematics 7 AB for junior high school, depending on the Seventh National School Curriculum. From the result of this study, much more development has been examined with the effort to observe the new national school curriculum that Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development announced. Still, the new school curriculum has several things to be improved. Thus, this study also presents the improvement plan for these problems. According to these improvement plan, new textbooks are expected to be published with more developed editing technique.