Media tools are always been believed can increase students’ learning outcomes. This study is to describe mathematics teachers’ perspective of media tools in mathematics learning. Instrument is a questionnaire about media tools in Likert scale. Questionnaire was delivered to 35 mathematics teachers in Padang Pariaman. The result shows that mathematics teachers have good perspective of media tools in mathematics learning at senor high school but the frequency of using it is still low.
Many factor influence mathematics learning outcomes, such as students’ attitude, interest and motivation. The aim of this research was to describe students’ characteristics, learning outcomes and geometry media tools that was been used in Junior High School at Padang. Type of study was descriptive research with qualitative approach. Instruments were questionnaire, test, observation and interview. The result shows that students’ attitude, interest and motivation to learn are in well category.
Teaching algebra in junior high school has its own difficulty. Algebra topic, such as using the variable, is introduced in the seventh grade of junior high school. Teachers must change students' ways of thinking from arithmetic thinking to algebraic thinking. The aim of this study is to know the teacher's perspective of algebra learning, especially about the number topic, in junior high school. The instrument was an open questionnaire, and it was given to 26 mathematics teachers at junior high school in Padang Pariaman region. The analysis used a descriptive approach. The result of the analysis shows that 18 teachers (69%) use media in learning mathematics, and most of them use media manipulative. There is no teacher using computer base media learning. Teachers find problems in algebra learning, such as students do not understand the type of number and the order of operations, which is happened because of misconception in mathematics.
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