Students’ perception on learning mathematic during the time of covid 19

Abstract

Mathematics lessons were taken by SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Kota Medan students. However,. owever, the perception of learning is not yet known, therefore it is necessary to conduct research with the aim of describing students’ perceptions of learning mathematics at SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Kota Medan. his research is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach. The method used is a survey method. The research instrument used was a questionnaire with 20 statement items. Testing the research instrument was carried out on 34 students of class VIII G SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Kota Medan. The questionnaire was declared valid and reliable (r count = 0.841). The research subjects were students of class VIII D and C SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Kota Medan, totalling 67 respondents who were determined using the cluster sampling method by drawing randomly. The data analysis technique used descriptive statistical techniques in the form of descriptive and frequency distribution. The results showed that the perceptions of grade VIII students of SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Kota Medan towards learning mathematics were in the very positive category of 65.7%, the positive category 34.3%, and none (0%) of the respondents had less positive and negative perceptions. Based on the results of this study, the perceptions of grade VIII students towards learning mathematics at SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Kota Medan were mostly very positive