Developing A Media ‘Visual Design of Pop Up Mathematics Book’ as a Supporting Tool in Inquiry-Based Learning for Learning Three-Dimensional Figures

Abstract

Inquiry-based learning is one of the learning models that involves more students with the invention of concepts or formulas as its main goal. Inquiry learning can improve the students’ learning outcomes and learning quality. Inquiry learning steps include investigating problems, formulating hypotheses, designing experiments, analyzing data, and concluding. The main problem faced by the students when dealing with inquiry learning is to formulate the hypotheses and find the formulas. The objective of this research is to develop a media called Visual Design of Pop Up Mathematics Book to overcome the difficulty of inquiry learning on three-dimensional figures. This research is a media development research which is effective to support inquiry-based learning. The development processes carried out by the researcher through the selected development model include product analysis, the first product development, expert validation and revision, small-scale field test and product revision, large-scale field test and the final product. Subjects were 8th grade students of a state secondary school in Wonogiri district. Based on the small-scale test, students who were given the media of visual design of pop up mathematics book obtained better results. They were more able to guess the possible steps and find the right way or formula in solving the problem than the students who did not use the media.