By : Marsigit
Reviewed by Naafi Awwalunita
Curriculum developing and planning are not an easy task because it need strive and comprehensive analyze to fulfill the standard requirements. Nowadays in Indonesia, the curriculum development need to notice about: the newest education issues, problems in fields, school variations, education workers, skill and students interest, school need, science and technologies. There are also six basic principal which should be noticed when we’re about to develop mathematics subjects based on basic competence such as:
1. Study chance for all people without any exception.
2. Curriculum is not only about material composition but also it could reflect mathematics activities coherently.
3. Mathematics teaching learning process need an understanding point about students need, ready, and teaching learning facility services.
4. Students have a chance to study about mathematics actively to build a concept structure through science and their experience.
5. It needs assessment activities to increase the quality of learning process as the time goes by.
6. Using various strategies and method of mathematics teaching learning difficulties and flexibilities based on learning context.
Teaching mathematics is not an easy job because facts had shown to us that students feel difficulty in learning mathematics (Jaworski, 1994). It seems like we should differentiate between mathematics and mathematics in school. In order to fulfill the innovation of education demand in common, Ebutt and Straker (1995: 10-63) defined that mathematics in school which later on it called mathematics as:
1. Mathematics is experiencing pattern and relation activities
2. Mathematics as creativity which needs imaginations, intuition and research
3. Mathematics as a problem solving activities
4. Mathematics as a communication tool
Now we will talk about student characteristic. Ebutt and Staker (1995: 60-75) gave us their view that in order to maximize student potential character, we should give an assumption and implication to mathematics teaching learning process like:
a. Student will comfortably learning mathematics if they have motivation.
b. Student learn mathematics with their own style
c. Student learn mathematics by their self or cooperate with their friends
d. Student need different context and situation when it comes to learn mathematics
Experience and learning activities are a must for students to get through in order to achieve the goals of basic competence and learning subjects. If we looked at the goals, learning experience could be gained from remembering, using and finding. In the other hand, if we looked at material side, then we can conclude that learning experience could be related by gaining facts, concept, principal, etc. learning experience could be gained either from inside or outside of the class.
Student experience should be supported by sources including direct objects or indirect objects which have contextual meaning. With that condition, developing learning strategies could have meaning such as: 1. Strive in solving problems, 2. Learn in every daily context of life, 3. Push the student as an active learner, 4. Respect the unique of each student and notice the differences between students, 5. Learn by cooperative learning and 6. Develop assessment in the middle of test system.
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