Trivium curriculum in Ethno-RME approach: An impactful insight from ethnomathematics and realistic mathematics education

Teaching Mathematics in Indonesian Primary Schools Using Realistic Mathematics Education (rme)-approach

This paper presents a case study about employing Realistic Mathematics Education (RME)-approach to teach mathematics in Indonesian primary schools. Many obstacles, such as the very dependent attitude of the pupils, the pupils who were not used to working in groups, lack of reasoning capability and lack of understanding of basic concepts, were found when the pupils, who were used to the traditio...

Ethnomathematics – Challenging Eu- rocentrism in Mathematics Education

CASCADE-IMEI: Web site support for student teachers learning Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) in Indonesia

CASCADE-IMEI is a learning environment in the form of a face-to-face course and a web site (www.cascadeimei.com) which aims to support student teachers in Indonesia to learn Realistic Mathematics Education (RME). RME is an instructional theory in mathematics education that was originally developed in the Netherlands. So far, two prototypes of the learning environment have been developed and eva...

The trace of realistic mathematics education in the school mathematics in Iran

Abstract: In the late 70's, in reaction to both "New Math" movement in the United States and "mechanistic mathematics education" approach to mathematics education in Netherland, Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) has been introduced by Freudenthal and his colleagues. In this educational approach, Freudenthal considered mathematics as a human activity. Based on this approach, education should...

I-Slate, Ethnomathematics and Rural Education

The crosscutting project described here based on the revolutionary concept of Probabilistic design [17] and of Ethnomathematics [13] aims to improve literacy in developing countries and regions, with an emphasis on India as the first test focussing on grades 1-5. Driving the I-Slate design are the pioneering principles trading off probability for energy, while educational pedagogy and practice ...