A Comparative study on Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Teacher Professional Education Programs: Understanding Students' Mathematical Concepts in Zoning School

摘要

The selection of the appropriate learning model is very important because it can make more meaning in the process of teaching and learning activities. Teacher Professional Education Program expects the practitioner to be able to choose appropriate learning model to the class conditions. Even in schools that have implemented a zoning system, namely public junior high school 5 Surakarta. This paper aims to find out the description and comparison of the four learning models used by Teacher Professional Education Program at public junior high school 5 Surakarta towards understanding students' mathematical concepts. The learning model used in the research were Number Head Together (NHT), Discovery Learning (DL) with recitation, Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Teams games Together (TGT). The methodology of this research uses descriptive and inferential statistics. Thus, inferential statistical analysis using one-way variance analysis. Data are understanding students' mathematical concepts were obtained by the tests. From the results of the study, it can be found that the average understanding of mathematical concepts of students using DLwith recitation has a better effect on understanding students' mathematical concept. In contrast, TGTs' class produce the lowest understanding students' mathematical concepts while the most varied understanding students' mathematical concepts are in the NHTs' class.