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Mathematics Teaching-Licence Credits and Course Requirements

This page explains when Mathematics Instruction Methods is required for junior-high and high-school mathematics teaching licences, and how its credits are counted.

Junior-high mathematics licence

For a Type I junior-high mathematics teaching licence, both Mathematics Education Methods and Mathematics Instruction Methods must be completed. Each course is worth 4 credits. Mathematics Instruction Methods is identified as a junior-high mathematics required course; in the listed curriculum, it is a third-year, year-long lecture course.

High-school mathematics licence

For a Type I high-school mathematics teaching licence, Mathematics Education Methods, worth 4 credits, must be completed. Mathematics Instruction Methods is not included in the required-credit total for the high-school licence and is not counted as elective-course credits in the specified curricula.

Limits on applying these credits to a high-school licence

When obtaining a high-school teaching licence, credits from Mathematics Instruction Methods, along with credits from the other middle-school-only instruction-methods courses and Teaching Practicum II, cannot be applied to any licence-credit category other than university independently established courses.

Official sources

The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.