Journal on Mathematics Education (JME)
Vol 2, No 1 (2011)

The Indonesian's Road Transportations as The Contexts to Support Primary School Students Learning Number Operation

Kairuddin Kairuddin (Universitas Negeri Medan)
Darmawijoyo Darmawijoyo (Universitas Sriwijaya, Palembang)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Mar 2014

Abstract

This paper highlights the Indonesian's road transportation contexts, namely, angkot, that used in learning and teaching of addition and subtraction in first grade and second grade MIN-2 Palembang. PMRI approach that adopt from RME was used in this design research. From teaching experiment was founded that the student used many strategies when teaching and learning process conducted. In situational level they used their knowledge of experience-base activity, in referential level they use manik-manik (string of beads), and in general level they used number line to solve the problem. From the research was known that the Indonesian's road transportation context helps student to understand basic concept of addition and subtraction. The suggestion to further research this context can be used in design research of multiplication.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jme

Publisher

Subject

Education Mathematics

Description

Journal on Mathematics Education (IndoMS-JME) is peer-refereed open-access international journal which has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of mathematics education. This journal is founded under collaboration between Indonesian Mathematical Society ...