Study on Teaching of Pair Exercises and Pyramid Exercises in Accordance with Actual State of Children: Focusing on Formative Evaluation and Tightness Felt by Children

The object of this study is to check up how to teach children on the pair exercises / pyramid exercises in accordance with their actual state through formative evaluation of the teaching and by elucidating the tightness of the exercises felt by children.The subjects were 517 the 6th graders of elementary school and 16 of teachers who taught them. Surveys were carried out with different format of anonymous self-administered questionnaires separately for children and teachers.As a result, the teaching was highly evaluated with level 4 or higher in all the details and overall judgement in the formative evaluation, showing that the subject children in this study highly evaluated the teaching of this pair exercises / pyramid exercises. At the same time, it was shown that 65.3 % of the children felt the tightness of the pair exercises / pyramid exercises ; female children felt more tightness than male children. Twelve categories of factors which make the pair exercises / pyramid exercises tight were extracted: the major ones were, “Being foundation” of the pyramid, and “Body pain”. Significant differences between the sexes were found in “Pain of being ridden on”, “Hotness” and “Fear”. More female children answered this way than male children.