Use of Manipulative Media as A Stimulation Of Ability To Understand The Concept of Early Children's Age

Agustina Nur Palupi

doi:10.23917/ecrj.v3i2.11414

Abstract

Every child has the right and needs for stimulation of his development. One of them is cognitive. Aspects of cognitive development can be stimulated through mathematics learning. But children can find it difficult to understand mathematical concepts because reasoning and logic are needed, whereas mathematical concepts are not concrete. For this reason, concrete media need to be used to demonstrate or illustrate the concept, the media are manipulative. The purpose of this study is to analyze articles and documents resulting from research on the use of manipulative media as a stimulation of the ability to recognize the concept of child numbers. Method: This research uses a literature review method. There are criteria in searching journals so that 20 journals are found to be analyzed based on population, sample, variables, data analysis, type of research design, and research results. Results and discussion: Literature review shows that the use of manipulative media in early childhood education varies greatly in terms of media material, its play, and its effectiveness. The manipulative media in question such as grain media, number blocks, clock puzzles, container marbles, picture cards, congklak numbers cards, numbers fishing games, and others. While the ability to recognize the concept of numbers in question such as the meaning of the symbol number of concepts a lot a little, counting, and others. Statistical analysis shows the application of manipulative media can stimulate the ability to recognize the concept of numbers in children, increase the activities of children and teachers, and found the response of children who are happy with the use of manipulative media. Conclusion: Manipulative media can stimulate the ability to recognize the concept of child numbers.

Highlights

Educating early childhood means guiding, caring for, and providing learning activities that will produce the abilities and skills of children
There are criteria in this research, namely: 1) Experimental or class action research, 2) Independent variables of research related to manipulative media, 3) The dependent variable of research relates to the ability to recognize the concept of numbers, 4) Respondents in this study are children with an age range of 2-10 years, 5) Research conducted is located in early childhood education and elementary school, 6) National articles with the last 5 years and international articles with the last 7 years
Articles used as references contain research on the use of manipulative media such as clock puzzles, marbles, train numbers, ice cream sticks, counting trees, picture cards, dice, congklak, and number blocks

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Introduction

Educating early childhood means guiding, caring for, and providing learning activities that will produce the abilities and skills of children. All of these efforts aim to build a child's selffoundation for growth and development which includes cognitive, social emotions, creativity, physical strength, and spiritual strength of children (Pradana, 2016: 19). There are three important things in developing a child's cognitive abilities, namely the ability to think logically, think symbolically, and be able to solve problems. Children will think logically through counting and matching, think symbolically through recognizing the symbol of numbers, and in the end, the knowledge gained will be able to be used in daily life such as when buying goods, counting toys, and distributing food, and others. Children will think logically through counting and matching, think symbolically through recognizing the symbol of numbers, and in the end, the knowledge gained will be able to be used in daily life such as when buying goods, counting toys, and distributing food, and others. (Syafitri, 2018: 194)

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