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5/20/2011

The nature of students learn mathematics

As a mathematics education student, we must feel happy because only few of young people have chance who concerning to the mathematics education. Let alone get mathematics education at the university jogjakarta. So we must study hard for Our goal. Make sure that we are on the right track supporting by competence, facilities and family that support us to gain our goal to become a Proffesional mathematics teacher.

For teaching, as a candidate of mathematics teacher, something important engage with the younger is the different way of thinking between us and them. If we are teaching, but students are learning. We should show modern teaching who make active student. That’s why, we have to be able to master technology or IT.

To be a successful mathematics teacher is not easy. Then start from now on in life, we strive for understand ourself. It means we must understand about the our situations and our characteristics. Everybody have different characteristics so we must  need understand both ourselves and everythings around us. If we didn’t understand, we could be blind and empty. Blind meaningfull there it nothing destination. We  must fill our comprehension by hard struggling in our life. Then, we would not get blind and empty. There are many ways to enhance our ability, Presently, we can improve our ability and knowledge by search knowledge from everything, everywhere. So as a student, we should not always depend on the our lecturer

The latter is, to become a successful and proffesional teacher In the future when learning process, we should prepare something to teach. There  Lesson Plan and Student Work Sheet. We also need to understand the role of interaction. Interaction happened by subjective knowledge and objective knowledge of mathematics.
Good preparation is one way to get success. . .

4/15/2011

INDEPT THINKING ABOUT MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Now we are in a student of mathematics educations so we must enjoy being in the department of mathematics education, Yogyakarta State University. It is more than just learning, in semester 2 this we must further expand the experience to get to the next semester.
Mathematics education presented to education for children, be it kindergarten, elementary school, or the other. In mathematics education we have to face many problems, for example when teaching elementary school children we should have thought concepts like elementary school children, so children better understand what we deliver. When learning about linear equations, in elementary school we've studied this, but for kids that age do not use the term linear equations, but used the things that can be understood by children, although different ways but have the same purpose as 2x + 5 = 15, for junior high or high school level using the variable x is not a problem, but for elementary school children it would be the difficulty of its own. So, it can be replaced x be a pencil or candy.
The mindset of someone in mathematics differ according to age, at the university level is more abstract mathematics, not to examples, and begins with a definition. While in school mathematics is more emphasized on daily life.
The view of the nature and characteristics of school mathematics will provide the characteristics of mathematics as a whole. Ebbutt and Straker (1995: 10-63) defines school mathematics, hereinafter referred to as mathematics, as follows :  
  1. Mathematics as search activity patterns and relationships
  2. Mathematics as a creativity that requires imagination, intuition and invention
  3. Mathematics as problem solving activities (problem solving)
  4. Mathematics as a means of communicating
Ebbutt and Straker (1995: 60-75), gave his view that the potential of for student to be developed an optimal, assumptions about the characteristics of the subject students and implications for learning mathematics are given as follows:
a.      The student will learn math if they have the motivation
b.     the student learn mathematics in its own way
c.     the student learn math either independently or through collaboration with his friend.
d.     the student need a context and situation different in learning mathematics