KOTA SAMARAHAN, 18^th July 2019 : Sarawak recently introduced a Digital Economy Agenda as an initiative by the demands of the fourth industrial revolution. It is estimated that the digital economy will upsurge economic growth in Sarawak, which has been relying mostly on natural resources over the past few decades. Big data analytics will become one of the critical parts of the digital economy agenda. It will help business owners to make the right economic decisions in the future based on data gathered from customers' online activities. One of the human-resource strategies to fulfil the Sarawak Digital Agenda initiative, mathematics teachers in Sarawak, play a crucial role in the agenda. Teachers who are currently teaching in urban and rural Sarawak schools are needed to align their teaching methods that will encourage mathematical cognition among students. When teachers use Big Data concepts when they teach Mathematics, students will learn about the importance of mathematical cognition. They will learn about how important it is to master mathematical cognition. It is a type of knowledge that will be useful to approach big data analytics in the future.

Mathematical cognition is fundamental when it comes to reasoning, problem-solving and decision ...