Studi Etnomatematika: Makna Simbolik dan Konsep Matematika Pada Rumah Adat Hamanas Malaka

Abstract

Ethnomathematics is a wedge between mathematics and culture. This shows that the cultural uniqueness of a particular area has the potential to have symbolic meanings and mathematical concepts or patterns in it. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the symbolic meaning and mathematical concepts contained in the Hamanas Malaka traditional house. This research is qualitative research with an ethnographic approach, carried out in Badarai Village, Wewiku-Malaka District in April-May 2022. The subjects in this research were 5 people. Research instruments in the form of researchers, observations, and interviews. Data analysis was carried out through the stages of data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the symbolic meanings found in the Hamanas traditional house are the end of the voyage, respect, unity of various levels, vertical relations between humans with the highest form, spaciousness or sincerity, gifts from ancestors, balance, equality, and harmonization. While the mathematical concepts found in the Hamanas traditional house are plane figure, solid figure, counting concept, and distance concept.