This research was grounded by the importance of learning materials in thelearning prosess. The materials were commonly taken from text book. As thebooks provided at school were limited, not all of students got them. Inaddition, the tacher rarely linked the materials and the problems solving to thestudentsâ real world. To deal with this problem, a realistic-based mathematicshandout for teaching shapes was developed. This research was aimed atfiguring out the validity and practicability of the handout developed. This wasa developmental research wich used 4-D model covering defining, designing,developing and disseminating. The result of the validity test showed that therealistic-based mathematics handout developed was valid (3,12). Further, theresult of the practicability test incated that the handout was also practicalviewed from the techerâs point of view (88,89%) and the studentsâ point ofview (84,71%). thus, it was cocluded that the realistic-based mathematicshandout developed for teaching shapes had been valid and very practikal.
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