Seeing the development of the world ‘s advanced science and technology, each individual must be able to balance and adjust to existing conditions. Through education, humans become more qualified and virtuous, so that they are useful for other humans. Therefore, education plays an important role in the survival of the nation and state.
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Fun learning strategy (joyful learning ) is a learning system that seeks to arouse interest, full involvement, and the creation of meaning, understanding, happy values for students, joyful learning strategies there are 4 stages: 1. Preparation, 2. Submission, 3. Training, 4. Cover. Humor in learning is communication carried out by educators using the insertion of words, language, and images that are able to tickle students to laugh, in the stage of delivery and training on joyful learning strategies used cartoon humor, images and teaching materials that are inserted or used in the subject matter.
This is the result of mathematics learning. The first group almost shows no significant change. Technically they are better, but their motivations arise from the environment, not from within themselves. They more often give up facing challenges.
Mathematical reasoning skills are needed in mathematics learning so it needs to be improved as well as motivation to learn mathematics because students’ mathematical reasoning abilities in many countries are still relatively low, there were still many students leaving mathematics in some high schools before the lesson was finished, from the study it was seen that there was still a low motivation to learn mathematics.
In the opinion of Freudenthal in Nur’ela states that mathematics should not be seen as a teaching material that must be transferred directly as ready-to-use mathematics, but must be viewed as a human activity. Mathematics learning should be done by giving the widest opportunity to students to try to find themselves through certain assistance from the teacher. Therefore a teacher must be able to create learning conditions that are meaningful and can present material properly and correctly.
Examples of meaningful learning in math, such an Introduction of sequence numbers to students. The example is like when you take the marbles and prepare a paper to show the numbers. By taking the number of one marble, then the paper is written one and so on until the tenth and ten marbles. Thus the child knows the meaning of numbers from one to ten.
There are many ways of introducing mathematics. Students are invited together to analyze from the picture to find the long concept of internal alliance tangents. Thus more impressive students to understand and memorize the formula because it analyzes itself how the circle tangent length ep formula is obtained. The Mathematics Learning Change Expected. A teacher should not only teach by announcing (telling) or just for comprehension (understanding), but the teachers are required also to facilitate the students to think that they can be students are able to study independently (independent learners), forward-thinking, and creative.
The connection between concepts in geometry is very close, making some things need to be known to students before he learns the concept of tangent circles, including students must first understand the concept of circles and their properties, concepts of lines and the theorem of Pythagoras. If the initial concepts that are a prerequisite for a geometric concept are not yet understood, it can be ascertained that students are not able to understand the concept.
Learning to find tangent concepts in a circle will be meaningful if invited together (students) guided to find out the concept by linking the understanding of knowledge he has about the concept of circles, the concept of lines and the concept of the Pythagorean theorem. For simplicity, images can be used as visualizations.
The important thing to know is that the success of any learning process is largely determined by psychological aspects and the rest is determined by mechanical/technical aspects.
With a positive self-concept, someone will continue to face the challenges that lie ahead. Likewise in understanding something. No matter how difficult the lesson is, if a student has a positive self-concept, he will try his best to find a way to master it. Meaningful Learning in Mathematics Learning