Kholida Agustin

Disampaikan Pada Penataran Kurikulum Matematika Berbasis Kompetensi Untuk SMK di BPG Yogyakarta, 6 Oktober 2003 Oleh : Dr. Marsigit MA Reviewed by : Kholida Agustin Teacher of mathematics commonly have difficulties when they teach student because the teacher must suit the teaching learning method with mental development of the student. Changing of the world must be followed by development of curriculum that must answer the challenge of recently issues in the world. Mathematics education based competence emphasis in ability of the graduated, so that curriculum developed based on extension of standard competence become base ability. Standard competence is ability that can do or view in mathematics, besides base ability is minimum ability that must be had by each student when they are learning certain topics. Teach math is not easy, because there are different between pure math and math in school. Ebbutt and Straker in Marsigit define math in school as: 1. Mathematics is...

By : Kholida Agustin (09301241011) Department of Mathematics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Yogyakarta State University A.     Introduction   A Mathematics still becomes scary subject for student. Improper teaching method that used by the teacher make student confuse and not have any desire to learn mathematics further. The students are prosecuted to always develop their knowledge and their ability in mathematics. On the other hand, the teacher also prosecuted to improve their teaching skill. There is opinion, “if we want to improve the student’s ability, we must improve the teacher skill first”. This opinion should be advice for the teacher to become better teacher in the future. Teaching mathematics in school should be has suit approaches to make the student improve correctly, suit with world development. The development of technology makes this world feel tighter. The student can learn by their selves by other friend or ...