the role of religion in the teaching and learning of mathematics

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THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN

THE TEACHING ANDLEARNING OFMATHEMATICS


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Taken from an article from a website:

Yes, I do teach [Islam] to my friendsdaughters and some boys who haventreached puberty and are under the age

of 12. Im not afraid of this, because Idont teach them to do drugs or otherharam things or disobey their parents. I

teach them to respect their parents, beafraid of Allah and other sinfulactivities, Fatima says.


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Role of religion in teaching particularlyin Mathematics is

Not to teach children to do badthings (haram things, disobeyingparents, taking drugs, smoking and soon) To help children become better (dogood things, respect parents and

others and so on)

As a Muslim country, Brunei

Darussalam has an educational


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Following procedures

In our religion (Islam), we will followprocedures in most of the thing we do. Forexample in doing prayer (salah), ablution(wudhu), performing Haj as in performing

Tawaf, and more.

For example in Ablution. There are 8 stepsto follow:

During Haj, in performing the Tawaf, peoplewalk seven times in a clockwise directionstarting from the black stone and end at italso.

Ablution

Tawaf

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Islamic Art (Design)

The role of religion (Islam) to Islamic

design is to introduce children todifferent form of shapes, designs andcolours.

Muslims do not draw human figures oranimals because they have beentaught to worship only God. Their artwork is made up of flowers and richlypatterned shapes based ongeometrical design.


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Role of Islam in counting

Counting is the basic knowledge whenlearning Mathematics especially to children.

The role of Islam religion is that it provides the

basic learning for counting to children.


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Pupils can count and list how many pillar of Islam.(5 pillar of Islam)

They can also count:The number of prayer in a dayThe number of rakaat in each prayerThe number of Islamic monthThe number of Allahs names

The number of prophetsThe number of days in Ramadan referring to theIslamic calenderThe number of beads a subha hasAnd more!

Students can also tell:What is the first Islamic month, the second and soon

Who is the first prophet, and who is the last


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Measuring

The role of religion in mathematical

measuring is that pupils are taught tomeasure fairly.

Islam measure aurat:

-Mens aurat is the area between their

navel (belly button) to their knees.-Womens aurat are the whole bodyexcept for their face and palm (hand).


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Time

Religion can take part in teachingpupils to measure the time and length

of salah (prayer). Pupils can knowwhen does each prayer start. Teachercan let pupils to explore and measurewhen each prayer starts and endsparticularly for zuhur and asar.


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Locating

Teacher can have pupils to experiencehow to locate something. We use

various forms to locate includingmaps, figures, charts and more.Religion can also play role in locating.


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