ASPEK ETNOMATEMATIKA PADA BUDAYA PENANGKAPAN IKAN PAUS MASYARAKAT LAMALERA KABUPATEN LEMBATA NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR

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Talking about the culture of the Lamalera people, it will not be far from the tradition that has been traditionally rooted and developed in this community that is whaling traditionally. This study discusses the aspects of ethnomatematics in the Culture Society Lamalera Lembata district of East Nusa Tenggara. This study has a purpose to describe from the point of view of Lamalera culture and from a mathematical point of view. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method with data collection techniques are interviews, documentation and literature study. The interview was conducted with four resource persons namely 3 people Lamalera, 1 workers at Kupang Museum. The results show that the culture of Lamalera society is very thick with whaling tradition is the ancestral heritage of Lamalera people who have existed since ancient times, and barter market in Lamalera contains mathematical elements such as angle, geometry, opportunities, logica and social arithmetic