Post by Mercedes Mateo Diaz

In education, many studies focus on the relationship between #ethnomathematics and #mathematics education in order to identify, publish, and promote new teaching methods that incorporate local cultural issues. In this new IDB study, we find that a well-designed #ethnomathematics program can reduce the indigenous achievement gap without asking students to choose between their academic learning and their identity, culture, and language. This is the first study of it kinds aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an #ethnomathematics intervention in preschool education of JADENKÄ, an intercultural bilingual mathematics program designed to increase the mathematical and ethnomathematical skills of the Ngäbe preschoolers in the comarca Ngäbe-Bugl in #Panama. Download this study and learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eSKNCBem Benigno Lopez Richard Martínez Alvarado Rocio Medina-Bolivar Ferdinando Regalia Laura Ripani M. Caridad Araujo Felipe Munoz Gomez Pablo Ibarraran Emma Naslund-Hadley Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte Humberto Santos Carmen Albertos de Ceano-Vivas Ana Grigera Cynthia Hobbs Horacio Alvarez Marinelli, MPAff Gregory Elacqua Maria Loreto Biehl Inter-American Development Bank