The Effect of Open Ended Approach on Problem Solving Ability and Learning Independence in Students' Mathematics Lessons

Nur Alfiani Hafidzah,Zainal Azis,Irvan Irvan

doi:10.30596/ijems.v2i1.6176

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether 1) solving mathematical problems between students who take learning with an open-ended learning approach and students who take learning without an open-ended learning approach; 2) the influence of mathematical ability among students who have learning independence high, medium and low; 3) whether the Open-Ended learning approaches and student learning independence there was an interaction of the students' mathematical problem solving ability. This research was Quasi Experimental design The Non-equivalent Post-test Only Control Group Design. This study population throughout the first semester of seventh grade students of MTs Negeri 1 Bandar Rice academic year 2018/2019. A research technique used is purposive sampling with a sample class as a class VII-1 and VII-2 experiment as a control group. The research instrument used was a test description to measure students 'mathematical problem solving and a questionnaire to measure students' learning independence. Analysis of the data in this study is a two-way ANOVA. The results of data analysis 1) there is a mathematical problem solving among students who take the learning with the Open-Ended learning approach with students who take the lesson without learning approach Open-Ended; 2) there is an influence on the ability of mathematical problems between students who have high, medium and low learning independence; 3) there is no interaction between the Open-Ended learning approach and students 'learning independence on students' mathematical problem solving ability.

Highlights

Education is one way of shaping the human ability to use reason and logic optimally as an answer to dealing with problems that arise in an effort to create a good future
Every level of education ranging from basic education to university level mathematics courses given, mathematics plays an important role in improving human resources
Learning mathematics at school focuses on developing students' abilities to solve problems and can be achieved competencies that can be used to compete in the global era

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Education is one way of shaping the human ability to use reason and logic optimally as an answer to dealing with problems that arise in an effort to create a good future. In the initial research conducted at MTS Negeri 1 Bandar sawah it was found that students' problem solving abilities were still lacking. This can be seen from the students 'answers shown in table 1 when given a set of questions that require problem solving skills. Example when the researcher gave the initial test in the form of questions taken from the 2009 National Examination manuscript to measure the students' mathematical problem solving abilities, the first question given was: "From a group of children in the class, there are 20 children who like English, 30 children who like Indonesian, and 15 children who like English and Indonesian. The number of participants who take part in the short story writing competition is ...”

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