COMMUNICATION SKILL ENHANCEMENT AND MATHEMATICAL REASONING MADRASAH ALIYAH STUDENTS BY MODEL TYPE COOPERATIVE LEARNING GAMES TEAMS TOURNAMENT

Abstract

Communication skills and mathematical reasoning are two of the objectives study of mathematics. Communication is defined as the ability to write, read, listen, examine, interpret, and evaluate ideas, symbols, terms, and mathematical information. Mathematical reasoning is a habit that when the brain is well developed and consistent will facilitate the mathematical communication both written and oral. Therefore, the necessary relevant learning model is needed to optimize, improve, and develop the communication and mathematical reasoning abilities of students. One of the learning model is a cooperative learning model called Teams Games Tournament (TGT). The aim of this study is to determine: (1) the increase in communication and mathematical reasoning abilities that students acquire with cooperative learning model TGT better than students who receive conventional learning approaches, and (2) the attitude of students towards learning mathematics with cooperative learning model TGT. This research is an experimental research design with a pretest-posttest control group design. The populations in this study were all students of class XI MAN 2 Aceh Besar, which consists of five classes. While the sample is composed of two classes of experimental classes and control classes were taken by random sampling. The instruments used to obtain research data communications test and mathematical reasoning ability, and attitude scale questionnaire. The statistical test used for analyzing data to increase communication skills and mathematical reasoning is two lanes ANOVA test, while the attitude scale questionnaire is calculated based on a percentage. The results showed that overall improvement in communication and mathematical reasoning abilities that students acquire learning with the cooperative learning model Teams Games Tournament better than students who received study with conventional approaches. The results of student questionnaire concluded that, in general the students have   a positive attitude towards learning mathematics using the cooperative learning model TGT.