Primary School Teachersr Capability in Developing Learning Media Basedon Tangram Interactive Game

Abstract

Improving the learning quality should be done by jointly addressing the problems that arise in learning activity. One of the important problems to be addressed is the teachers' difficulty in learning mathematics, especially geometry. Almost all geometry materials are verbally delivered and rarely use learning media due to the lack of instructional media. The purpose of this research is to improve the performance of teachers in primary schools in Bergas, Semarang in developing learning media especially on geometry materials. Tangram Interactive Game (TIG) is used as one of the materials given to teachers. This media is expected to inspire teachers to modify the learning media on geometry material in primary schools. Qualitative descriptive method is used in processing teachers' understanding data on geometry materials and teachers' skill in developing learning media on geometry materials. The conclusions of this research are (1) there is improvement of teacher's understanding on geometry materials showed by the improvement of pre-test and post-test result with n-gain 0,484 which is in medium category, (2) teachers' capability in developing learning materials is also in medium category and the developed media fulfills the didactic requirement in 60%, construction requirements in 75.75%, and technical requirements in 76.25%.