The analysis of the implementation of discovery-based learning to improve students’ creative thinking skills in solving the number multiplication problems

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the analysis of the implementation of discovery-based learning to improve students’ creative thinking skills in solving the number multiplication problems. Students' creative thinking skills are very important, even though the current condition is not as well as the expectation. This type of research used is a mixed method, which is a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative methods are used to analyze interval data types for student learning outcomes, while qualitative methods will be used to analyze ordinal data of creative thinking skills. The research respondents consisting of two classes, namely 30 students for control class and 30 students for experimental class. The results showedthat implementation of discovery-based learning to improve students’ creative thinking skills in solving the number multiplication problemsin the experimental class is more effective than control class used conventional learning. The independent sample t-test from the post-test showed that there was a significant difference between the control class and the experimental class with the sig (2-tailed) value is 0.000 (p = <0.05). It can be concluded that implementation of discovery-based learning can improve students’ creative thinking skills in solving the number multiplication problems.