Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290061 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01290
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract (Translated): 
The aim of this article is to provide rigorous at scale experimental evidence on the effectiveness of an ethnomathematics education program. This article describes and evaluates the impact of JADENKA (pronounced Ha-den-go), an intercultural bilingual mathematics program designed to increase the mathematical and ethnomathematical skills of the Ngabe preschoolers, within the comarca Ngabe-Buglé in Panama. To our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate the effectiveness of an ethnomathematics intervention in preschool education through an RCT. The program was designed by a team of experts in early mathematics pedagogy, Ngabe mathematics and language, Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) methodology , as well as Ngabe actors and singers. Our results indicate positive effects of the program on the mathematical and ethnomathematical skills of students. The magnitude of the impact on mathematics (0.12-0.18 s.d.) is comparable to other bilingual and intercultural bilingual education preschool mathematics programs implemented in low- and middle-income countries.
Subjects: 
etnomatemática
educación intercultural bilingüe
ensayo controlado aleatorizado
JEL: 
C21
I24
J15
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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