The analysis of the application of learning materials based on project-based learning to improve the elementary school students’ creative thinking skills in solving contextual division problems

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the analysis learning materials implementation based on project-based learning to improve the elementary school students’ creative thinking skills in solving contextual division problems. This type of research is using a mixed research, which is a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The research respondents consist of two classes, namely a control class as many as 19 students and an experimental class as many as 20 students. The results shows after the implementation using the application learning materials base on project-based learning, it was found that the presentation of students' creative thinking skills for the control class are 77,19% for fluency, 70,18% for flexibility, and 56,14% for novelty. While the experimental class are 82,5% for fluency, 91,67% for flexibility, and 67,5% for novelty. Then the score of the indepent sample t-test from post-test shows that there is a significant difference between the control class and the experimental class with the sig (2-tailed) value is 0.000 (p = <0,05). It can be concluded that the application learning materials base on project-based learning can improve students' creative thinking skills in solving contextual division problems.