Implementation of realistic mathematics educations learning model during the Covid-19 pandemic (in establishing and completing the linear program model with the utilization of quantity method software)

Abstract

Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) Learning Model is one of the appropriate learning alternatives for students to construct knowledge with their abilities through the activities they carry out in the teaching and learning process activities that are associated with reality as part of human activities. The purpose of this RME learning is to improve students’ ability to create and complete a Linear Program Model as an illustration of a reality in the Operations Research course. This research is a classroom action research, carried out in the Operations Research course, semester VI of the Development Economics Study Program for the 2020-2021 academic year. This activity includes 4 stages, namely the planning stage, action implementation, observation, and reflection. The results of the study can be seen from the student ability questionnaire, where students who can make a Linear Program Model are 36.36%, students who complete the Linear Program Model manually are 36.36%, while students who use data processing tools are by 49.91%. The results showed that as many as 72.73% of students, the average score of the test results was 84.91. Realistic Mathematics Education Learning Methods using data processing tools, Quantity Method Software, can be said to be successful.