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Description of Mathematical Creative Thinking and Reasoning Ability of SMP Students in Islamic Culture-Based Learning Jazuli, Akhmad
EDUCARE Vol 6, No 1 (2013)
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ABSTRACT: Learning of Mathematics at the moment seems not to develop students’ Mathematical thinking ability to the fullest. Therefore, it is necessary to find solutions to overcome these problems. The purpose of this research is to describe the ability of Mathematical creative thinking and reasoning; and to describe contribution of Islamic culture values to the ability of Mathematical creative thinking and reasoning. This research is qualitative research. The  subject is the 8th grade students in SMP (Sekolah Memengah Pertama or Junior High School) Al-Irsyad al-Islamiyyah Purwokerto in Central Java, Indonesia; and six students who were selected as respondent. The results research is: (1) the students’ ability of Mathematical creative thinking in the high academic achievement category can be said to be complete and very good, the students in the middle academic achievement category can be said to be fair good, deductive reasoning is dominant and creative thinking consist of fluency, originality, and elaboration. The students’ ability of Mathematical thinking in the low academic achievement category can be said to be poor, inductive reasoning is dominant and creative thinking only consist of originality component; and (2) the implementation of Islamic culture value gives a positive contribution to “akhlak” or character building and effectiveness of thinking ability. “Tahfizh” or recitation of Al-Qur’an enhances students’ Mathematical higher order thinking ability. The implementation of pray gives students’ self confidence and discipline in solving Mathematical problem.KEY WORDS: Mathematical creative thinking, Mathematical reasoning, Islamic culture-based learning, junior high school student, and quality of education.About the Author: Dr. Akhmad Jazuli is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training UMP (Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto) in Central Java, Indonesia. The author is able to be searched via his e-mail at: jazuli_akhmad@yahoo.com How to cite this article? Jazuli, Akhmad. (2013). “Description of Mathematical Creative Thinking and Reasoning Ability of SMP Students in Islamic Culture-Based Learning” in EDUCARE: International Journal for Educational Studies, Vol.6(1) August, pp.81-90. Bandung, Indonesia: Minda Masagi Press owned by ASPENSI in Bandung, West Java; and FKIP UMP in Purwokerto, Central Java, ISSN 1979-7877.Chronicle of the article: Accepted (June 11, 2013); Revised (July 22, 2013); and Published (August 17, 2013).  
Jigsaw Type of Cooperative Learning as a Means of Improving High School-Students’ Mathematical Communication Ability Ahmad, Ahmad; Jazuli, Akhmad
EDUCARE Vol 1, No 2 (2009)
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ABSTRACT: The mathematical communication is the basic ability which must be possessed by mathematics practitioners and users during teaching-learning process and assessing mathematics. By using Jigsaw technique as a part of cooperative learning, this technique considers students to work interdependently in a group of four to six but at the same time have individual responsibility. Every group is responsible for the mastery of the learning material. The aim of this research, however, was to examine the quality of mathematical communication ability between students who were treated with cooperative learning model and those with conventional model. The population of this study were second grade students of SMUN Banyumas in the academic year 2005/2006. Two classes were taken as sample, each of them had thirty students. Data were collected by means of communication ability test that had satistactory face and content validity and had reliability of 0.5335 (high reliability). Based on analisys result using t-test, it was concluded that the cooperative learning model gave better result to the students communication ability than the conventional one.KEY WORDS: jigsaw, cooperative learning model, conventional learning model, mathematical communication ability.  About the Authors: Drs. Ahmad, M.Pd. and Drs. H. Akhmad Jazuli, M.Si. are Lecturers at the Faculty of Education and Teacher Training UMP (Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto) in Central Java, Indonesia. They can be reached at: ahmadump@yahoo.co.id and jazuli_akhmad@yahoo.comHow to cite this article? Ahmad & Akhmad Jazuli. (2009). “Jigsaw Type of Cooperative Learning as a Means of Improving High School-Students’ Mathematical Communication Ability” in EDUCARE: International Journal for Educational Studies, Vol.1(2) February, pp.207-218. Bandung, Indonesia: Minda Masagi Press owned by ASPENSI in Bandung, West Java; and FKIP UMP in Purwokerto, Central Java, ISSN 1979-7877.Chronicle of the article: Accepted (December 3, 2008); Revised (January 15, 2009); and Published (February 17, 2009).