ABSTRACT The background of this research is students are still low to understand the concept of mathematic and they donât want to ask some question, share opinion about the material that have been not understood yet. To solve the problem, teacher should apply active learning like learning tournament strategy. The purpose of this research is to know the students in understanding mathematic concept by applying learning tournament is better than convensional learning strategy. Kinds of this is experiment research. The population in this research is grade nineth SMPN 2 Ranah Pesisir. Instrument that used in this research used essay from reliability 0,93. The technique of data analysis used T-test one side. Based on the result of hypothesis obtained T-table = 1,6735 T-count = 3,86 so Tcount > Ttable. There for hypothesis is reviced at level confidence 95%. In conclusion students mathematic concept by applying learning tournament strategy is better than convensional learning strategy in class grade nineth SMPN 2 Ranah Pesisir.Â
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