Growing the Character Values to Students through Application of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) in the Social Arithmetic Learning
Abstract: Educating students
at the Basic Education level is not only demanded that the students are clever,
but there are also other demand which no less important that is to educate so
that students have a good character value. Educating the students to have a good character value
is started from home, school, and community. In school, educating character to
students is not only the duty of teachers of Religion or Civics class, but also
the duty of all teachers, including the teachers in Mathematics. Math teacher
does not need to hold special time for educating of character, but it can be integrated
into any material taught, and also in different application of learning models.
This paper examines how the efforts of mathematics teacher in educating of
character to the students of Basic Education, especially in Junior High School
through the application of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) on the
material of Social Arithmetic. Through presenting of the material of Social
Arithmetic by RME learning model, students can be given a character education through
the attitude of honesty, tolerance, discipline, cooperation, creative,
independent, democratic, curiosity, love of peace, social care, responsibility,
and so on. In conclusion, educational character values to students can be done
by mat-hematics teacher through a variety of materials. One of them
through presenting of the material of Social Arithmetic by RME learning
model.
Author: Amin Suyitno
Journal Code: jpmatematikagg150001
