The overriding content of this groundbreaking International Round Table Discussion was the sophisticated technology that brought speakers from Singapore, the USA, and Japan into the huge Makuhari Event Hall at Makuhari Messe in Japan, providing participants with simultaneous translation. Bass indicated that there is a need to redefine the role of university faculty in the preparation and development of teachers. Dr. Alberts enumerated a list of improvements to be made to improve the teaching profession, including the encouragement of our best students to become teachers, the connection of teachers with universities and with business and industry, and the need to improve teachers' salaries.
Technology is an incredible tool and also a challenge to mathematics teachers.
Teaching mathematics in context has different meanings for different students and different teachers. Teaching for the current workplace is counterproductive because in a very few years, the workplace will be much different from what it is today. We need to prepare learners for the future.