border provinces while that for the samples in the control group included
experiences in ordinary games. The research instruments were a test for
measuring basic mathemathics skills of which the reliability was 0.76, 10 lesson
plans of folk game experience for the experimental group, and 10 lesson plans
of ordinary game experiences for the control group. Arithmetic means,
standard deviation, and t-test were used for data analysis. This research
found that the samples using Thai as a second language who had experiences
in folk games had a higher basic mathematics skills than those who had
experiences in ordinary games at the significant level of 0.1.