Research carried out from the 1960s to the 1990s by anthropologist Li Yi-yuan and education researchers Chen Chih-lieh and Lin Hsuan-cheng in different aboriginal villages revealed that average achievements in math did lag behind those of typical elementary schools in Han Chinese communities.
從一九六○到九○年代，包括人類文化學者李亦園、教育學者陳枝烈、林宜城在原住民不同社群所做的調查研究顯示，比起平地學校，原住民國小學童的數學成就均比較差。