THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN

THE TEACHING AND

LEARNING OF
MATHEMATICS
Taken from an article from a website:

“Yes, I do teach [Islam] to my friends’

daughters and some boys who haven’t
reached puberty and are under the age
of 12. I’m not afraid of this, because I
don’t teach them to do drugs or other
haram things or disobey their parents. I
teach them to respect their parents, be
afraid of Allah and other sinful
activities,” Fatima says.
Role of religion in teaching particularly
in Mathematics is

 Not to teach children to do bad

things (haram things, disobeying
parents, taking drugs, smoking and so
on)
 To help children become better (do
good things, respect parents and
others and so on)

As a Muslim country, Brunei

Darussalam has an educational
Following procedures

In our religion (Islam), we will follow

procedures in most of the thing we do. For
example in doing prayer (‘salah’), ablution
(‘wudhu’), performing ‘Haj’ as in performing
‘Tawaf”, and more.
Ablutio
For example in ‘Ablution”. There are 8 steps
n
to follow:

During Haj, in performing

T
awaf
the Tawaf, people
walk seven times in a clockwise direction
starting from the black stone and end at it
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also.
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Islamic Art (Design)

The role of religion (Islam) to Islamic

design is to introduce children to
different form of shapes, designs and
colours.

Muslims do not draw human figures or

animals because they have been
taught to worship only God. Their art
work is made up of flowers and richly
patterned shapes based on
geometrical design.
Role of Islam in counting

Counting is the basic knowledge when

learning Mathematics especially to children.
The role of Islam religion is that it provides the
basic learning for counting to children.
Pupils can count and list how many pillar of Islam.
(5 pillar of Islam)
They can also count:
•The number of prayer in a day
•The number of raka’at in each prayer
•The number of Islamic month
•The number of Allah’s names
•The number of prophets
•The number of days in Ramadan referring to the
Islamic calender
•The number of beads a ‘subha’ has
•And more!

Students can also tell:

•What is the first Islamic month, the second and so
on
•Who is the first prophet, and who is the last
Measuring

The role of religion in mathematical

measuring is that pupils are taught to
measure fairly.

Islam measure aurat:

-Men’s aurat is the area between their

navel (belly button) to their knees.
-Women’s aurat are the whole body
except for their face and palm (hand).
Time

Religion can take part in teaching

pupils to measure the time and length
of salah (prayer). Pupils can know
when does each prayer start. Teacher
can let pupils to explore and measure
when each prayer starts and ends
particularly for ‘zuhur’ and ‘asar’.
Locating

Teacher can have pupils to experience

how to locate something. We use
various forms to locate including
maps, figures, charts and more.
Religion can also play role in locating.