Study Ethnomathematics: Revealing Mathematics Ideas on Minangkabau Traditional Weaving Songkets in Pandai Sikek Enmufida, Turmudi, Asep Syarif Hidayat
Departemen Pendidikan Matematika, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setia Budhi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
Abstract
This study aims to prove a mutual relationship between mathematics and culture. Due to an assumption that mathematics does not have any relationship with each kind of culture. However, a study about ethnomathematics scruitinizes a group of culture as mathematical. This research takes place in Pandai Sikek. Tanah Datar Regency. West Sumatera. People in Pandai Sikek are the biggest producers of songket in Minangkabau. Pandai sikek still keeps on their culture tightly, one of them is the women of pandai sikek do the weaving hereditary. This research focuses on revealing a mathematical idea beyond traditional songket Minangkabau at Pandai Sikek. This study of ethnomathematics uses a qualitative approaching of an ethnography method. The data were collected through observation, interview and study documentation. The result of the research is to reveal a mathematical idea that is used by Pandai Sikek people on manufacturing songket that there are mathematic activities and geometry patterns in traditional songket pattern of Minangkabau. This research enlights people that mathematics has relationship with culture.
Keywords: Study Ethnomathematics, people of Pandai Sikek, Songket (weaving)
