PENGARUH PENERAPAN PENDEKATAN KONTEKSTUAL TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS MATEMATIS SISWA SMP
Abstract: Critical thinking
skills of mathematics mastered by students is very important, especially in the
competition of globalitation era. An approach that can improve both of them is
contextual approach in learning. This research aims are to determine: The Improvement
of students' critical thinking skills between the class which used contextual
approach in learning and the one which used conventional learning.
Quasi-experiment methods was used in the research and the design was "pretest-posttest non
equivalent control group". Population of this research was the students of
SMP Negeri 3 Menggala and class VIII C and VIII D as the research sample,
technique of samples used purposive sampling. Data collected by the instrument
test critical thinking of mathematics. The improvement of critical thinking
skills data analysed by using the t- test. The findings of this study
indicated: The Improvement of students'
critical thinking skills between the class which used contextual approach in
learning was better than which used conventional learning. In table t-test
indicated sig < α is 0.001 < 0.05
Penulis: Usep Suwanjal
Kode Jurnal: jpmatematikadd160870
