“USAHA GURU” DALAM MENINGKATKAN MINAT SISWA MEMPELAJARI MATEMATIKA Oleh : Dr. Marsigit

Concluding Remark
by: Bayu M Iskandar
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Most of mathematics teacher have problems in teaching mathematics itself. Why? There are some constraints in teaching math such as understanding the meaning of the theory, how to apply the topics in daily life, the current system, environment and facilities. Moreover, teachers also often have difficulties such as how to handle a class with various student, develop technology in teaching, making the student active in class, targets in final exam (UAN), and all of those problems and difficulties lead to a decision that most of the teachers made: thought that there is no other ways to teaching mathematics except with exposition method. And that’s definitely makes most of the student getting bored and not really math subject in their class. So what do we do as a mathematics teacher?
 From those 3 points of view, which is the right view to mathematics in school?  First, mathematics is activities that browse the pattern and relation. Second, mathematics is creativity that needs imagination, intuition and discovery. The third, mathematics is problem solving activity, and the last is mathematics is one of the ways to communicate.
From all the information that we got, there are one more thing that must be our concern. That is the substance of learning mathematics. First, students will study if they are motivated. Second, the students study with their own ways. Third, the students learn individually and corporately with their colleagues. And the last is the student need different context and situation in learning mathematics. From all of that, now we can conclude what we have to do as mathematics teacher. Those are, teacher need to know the capability of his/her student. And then the teacher have to make a plan that match with the students capability. The third, the teacher have to build the knowledge and skills that they get from school and environment.
So, few things that have to evaluate in mathematics learning is definition, process, skills, fact, and result. Definition : I(teacher) want to know whether they (student) know or not. Process: I want to know what way they can use. Skills: I want to know which skills that they have can be used. Fact: I want to know what’s they remembered. And the last one is result: I want to know what they get.