Model-Eliciting Activities Approach as a Tool to Improve Creative Thinking Skills and Self-Confidence

Abstract

Abstract-The Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) approach is a reality-based approach, works in small groups and presents a model to help students build problem solving and get students to apply an understanding of the mathematical concepts which they have learned. The main adventages of MEAs to develop student's thinking then students can create their own models to solve mathematical problems. The purpose of this study is to test influence of the MEAs learning approach on student's craetive thinking skills and self-confidence. This study is a quasiexperimental research using pre-test and post-test control group design. The data in this research were analyzed using Two Ways ANOVA using SPSS 17.0 for windows. Results of Two Ways ANOVA shows that the MEAs approach has significant value gained 0.000 and 0.012 which are less than 0.05. This means that H0 refused and H1 accepted so there is influence of MEAs approach on creative thinking skills and self-confidence.

Development of Mathematical Learning Media Based on Geogebra Based Learning Problem to Improve Students’ Creative Thinking Ability

“…Student creativity is one of the factors that influence mathematics learning achievement. Low student creativity is caused by a direct learning process, emphasizing the cognitive aspects of students only, while the affective and psychomotor aspects of students are ignored (Pane, Syahputra and Mulyono, 2017). Nehe, Surya and Syahputra (2017) states that creativity is something that is ignored in learning mathematics.…”