Design-based research demonstrates improved student engagement and understanding in mathematics using Batak culture, suggesting strong educational benefits.
Key Points
Integrating batak cultural values significantly enhances student understanding of trigonometry, integer operations, and logarithms, boosting their learning outcomes.
Game-based learning media effectively leverages the batak kinship philosophy, showing robust improvements in students' academic performance and engagement in mathematics.
The design-based research approach encompassed multiple stages including expert validation and classroom implementation across seven schools in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Incorporating local cultural values into educational tools may offer an innovative framework for enhancing mathematics education in diverse cultural settings.