review 9

KEGIATAN PENELITIAN SEBAGI USAHA UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PROFESIONALISME GURU  MATEMATIKA

By : Marsigit

To realize the reform of mathematics education research mathematics education will become a necessity. Apart from the formal legal aspects of mathematics education research activities either by teachers, lecturers as well as by prospective teachers will give many benefits. With the study of mathematics education we can know the existence of differences in individuals or groups to study the mathematics, we can determine the position of students in the group, can compare learning outcomes between groups. We can also do a match between objectives and results of learning outcomes. Research results can be used for refining the program, mentoring, provision of information to the public. Besides that we also can do a comparison between the performances and the criteria for each dimension of the program as well as refining the program and the inference results of mathematics education as a whole. Then we can conduct studies on the implementation of the program, the influence of the learning environment, the influence of the program, curriculum or syllabus of learning outcomes and ultimately used for the improvement of mathematics education program as a whole. Of excessive exposure in advance not to the teachers would be given a suggestion to enter the educational research activities is always attached with mathematics learning activities. More specifically, before learning of mathematics held the teacher should do the following as a preparatory step that is:

1.      Planning for mathematics learning environments:
• determine the source of the necessary teaching
• plan activities that are flexible
• plan the physical environment of learning mathematics.
• involve students in creating mathematical learning environment.

2.      Develop students' social environment
• planning activities to work together.
• encourage students to respect each other
• track students' feelings about mathematics
• develop mathematical models.

3.      Planning for mathematics activities
• plan mathematical activities are balanced in terms of: matter, time, trouble, activities, etc..
• plan mathematical activities that are open (open-ended)
• plan activities according to students' abilities.
• develop mathematical topics.
• build mental math.
• when and where help students?
• use a variety of teaching boast (a book which varies).