Exploring local wisdom: utilizing ethnomathematics to improve mathematical creative thinking skills

Ethnomathematics is cultural mathematics. The culture in question is the habitual behavior of the people around you, such as the behavior of urban or rural community groups, labor groups, professional groups, student age groups, indigenous peoples, and other groups. Various efforts are made to increase student motivation in learning mathematics. It is hoped that it can improve learning outcomes and improve mathematical creative thinking skills. One of the initiatives is ethnomathematics-based learning, which studies the relationship between culture and mathematics, and integrates local wisdom values into mathematical concepts. In this way, students not only learn mathematical concepts, but also develop an appreciation and love for their own culture. The purpose of this study is to determine the use of ethnomathematics to improve mathematical creative thinking skills. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode SLR (Systematic Literature Review), This is a method of identifying, reviewing, and summarising various studies on the topic at hand. Data collection is done by documenting all articles that have similar research results. The articles used in the study were 14 articles taken from the Gooogle Scholar database, Research Gate, Springer Link. This research shows that the ethnomathematics approach can increase learning motivation, student engagement, understanding of mathematical concepts, and creative problem solving skills. In addition, ethnomathematics can also be used as a means to preserve local wisdom and cultural values of Indonesian society. Therefore, the use of ethnomathematics in mathematics learning can be an effective strategy to improve students' creative thinking skills and foster deeper cultural awareness.