Abstract
Language and Mathematics are both skills and knowledge that need to master well so that it can be the provision for students’ future life when mingling with the community or society. Because of that the integration of teaching both language and Mathematics in bilingual Math learning will give many benefits to the students. They will learn not only how to interact with others by improving their communication skills but also how to develop their Math concepts and skills. Moreover students will also get lots of advantages by learning Mathematics bilingually. This study aimed to find out the development of the students’ English for Math ability in numbers and number sense in which the process of teaching learning is equipped with teaching aids based on local wisdom. The participants were 30 kindergarten students. The study used descriptive qualitative method and the results revealed that the teaching learning activities with teaching aids designed based on local wisdom have a significant effect on the development of both kindergarten students’ performance in English for Math activities and their love toward the local products found in their surrounding environment.
Highlights
Childhood is often referred to as “golden age” or golden period
This study aimed to find out the development of the students’ English for Math ability in numbers and number sense in which the process of teaching learning is equipped with teaching aids based on local wisdom
The study used descriptive qualitative method and the results revealed that the teaching learning activities with teaching aids designed based on local wisdom have a significant effect on the development of both kindergarten students’ performance in English for Math activities and their love toward the local products found in their surrounding environment
Summary
Childhood is often referred to as “golden age” or golden period. At this time almost all the potential of children have a sensitive period to grow and develop rapidly and greatly. The orientation of life needs to be grown from an early age so that children will be exposed to learn how to weigh and judge. If the orientation since the early childhood is good, the adolescent child does not need to go through a crisis of identity and shake the soul. Because they have found it before the self-feels that are very important to them in adolescence. English for Math learning model is not something new in kindergarten schools This model will be successfully implemented if equipped with teaching aids that can improve students’ motivation so that the process of teaching learning will be more fun and exciting. In order to satisfy the needs of the integration of language and Math and find the appropriate ways to teach English for Math as the integration of language and Math, the students’ development of English for Math ability in number and number sense implemented with teaching aids based on local wisdom are investigated
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