Effectiveness Of Teaching 26 Learning Mathematics Using Childrens Home Language And Cultural Tools

The purpose of this research paper is two-fold. First the aim is to prove the effectiveness of using childrens home language and cultural tools in teaching and learning mathematics at primary school level in Fiji. For privacy reasons the actual name of the participating school is not mentioned in this paper. Secondly this paper also demonstrates how practicing teachers can use the problem-solving approach and selective analytics to do research in order to improve their own teaching and learning in the classroom. We believe that the new findings and methods demonstrated in this paper will help improve mathematics teaching 26 learning processes and motivate teachers to collaborate with fellow teachers and do more researches in their classrooms and to publish their works.