Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Software to Develop Mathematics Teaching Materials

Abstract

The presumption of mathematics lessons difficulty lead to a lack of students’ learning interest, which can contribute to mathematics learning achievement. Identification of the problem in this study was carried out by conducting interviews with mathematics teachers at SMP Negeri (State middle School)12 Bandar Lampung, Mr. I Ketut Pande, S. Pd and also giving questionnaires to the eighth-grade students of middle school about problems in mathematics. Researchers are trying to develop computerized-based teaching materials designed as attractive as possible. In supporting the development of teaching materials, researchers using an application Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 is one of the software applications in Windows. In developing applications, Visual Basic uses a visual approach to design user interfaces of forms, while coding uses basic languages that tend to be easily understood in accordance with mathematics learning in the two-variable linear equation system material for the eighth-grade students of Middle School. This Teaching materials have validation stage by material experts, media experts and in trials on students at Bandar Lampung 12 Public Middle School. The quality of teaching materials has reached the feasibility standard of teaching materials from the results of the assessment of material experts, media experts, educational practitioners, and students. It can be concluded that mathematics teaching materials using Microsoft Visual Basic media that have been developed in this study are worthy of being used as supporting teaching materials in the teaching and learning process.