Apart from stereotypical notions that parents of aboriginal children are less inclined to supervise their children's homework and that indigenous culture is less mathematically stimulating, there is evidence that the nine tribes traditionally understood math somewhat differently from Han Chinese.
除了刻板印象裡，原住民家庭成員被認為較少「逼」孩子功課、相較於城市，原住民部落文化刺激較少外，在有關數的概念上，九族文化的確與漢族有些不同。