Monday, December 28, 2009

The Affect of Environmental Situation in Mathematics Learning Process

Learning is a process which is information or new knowledge is obtained. It’s not only in school but also in everywhere. Everything on this world could be learned. Based on this learning, we can produce a solution to solve the problem. It needs a concentration and could be influenced by situation and condition of this environment. There are kind of learning styles such as by listen the music, be alone in a quite places, by pronouncing loudly, and so on.
In this article, I focus on the affection of environmental situation to mathematics learning process. I will try to find out how significant the affection of environmental situation to mathematics learning process. This research is conditioned when the research object is placed on a private course nearby main road. His name is Adi Baskara. He is 3rd grade in SMP Pangudi Luhur.
Research mechanism:
It uses test system
15 problems is given to the object
Me as an observer will examine the self symptom which appear during the object does the task

The problem is presents as follow:
A flag tower with 3 m height has a shadow length of 1.8 m. If a tree has 2.1 m length, so the height of the tree is…
A. 3,2 m B. 3,4 m C. 3,5 m D. 3,6 m

A slide has 3.2 cm width and 2.4 cm height. If the slide on the screen having wide 1.8 m, so the height of the slide on the screen is….
A. 1,3 m B. 1,35 m C. 1,2 m D. 10,5

A picture having size 45 cm x 40 cm is copied for 80% of it’s size. The size of the copied picture is…
A. 40 cm x 38 cm C. 36 cm x 34 cm
B. 40 cm x 36 cm D. 36 cm x 32 cm
A sheet of carton having size 30 cm x 40 cm will be made a photo frame. On the left and right side of the photo still has a remaining carton with 3 cm width. If photo and carton is congruent, so the width of the upper side and base side which not covered is…
A. 8 cm B. 6 cm C. 5 cm D. 4 cm

The score of mathematics examination from a group of student is presented in a table as bellow:

Score 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Frequentation 2 3 4 8 9 7 4 3
So the value of mean, median and mode from the data above serially is…
A. 6,775; 7,000 and 7,000
B. 6,675; 6,000 and 6,000
C. 6,775; 6,000 and 7,000
D. 6,875; 6,500 and 9,000

From a pack of bridge card, will be chosen 1 card randomly. The possibility of red ace is taken is…
A. B. C. D.

In a area of goiter endemic is found a data that the possibility of local residents are infected goiter disease is 0.125. If the total residents in this area is 28.000, so total of resident which is infected by the disease is…
A. 2.800 B. 3.200 C. 3.500 D. 3.600

(3 - 1)2 = ………..
A. 44 – 6 C. 46 - 6
B. 44 - 3 D. 46


A metal ball having diameter 12 cm. It will be melted and reform to be a cone in same radius with the ball. The height of the cone is...
A. 36 cm B. 24 cm C. 18 cm D. 12 cm

Known a number sequence 5, 8, 11, 14…… The 30th term of the sequence is…
A. 92 B. 95 C. 96 D. 99

If Sn = 3n2 + n is sum formula of n the first term of arithmetic sequence, so U7 = ……..
A. 35 B. 40 C. 56 D. 154

A arithmetic sequence has U3 + U5 = -8 and U8 = 0. The first term of the sequence is… A. 9 B. 5 C. 4 D. -7

A cylinder has base circumference 44 cm and 36 cm height. The volume of the biggest cone that can be put in to the cylinder is...
A. 1.386 cm³ C. 1.848 cm³
B. 1.438 cm³ D. 2.772 cm³
The positive power of x 6 x 2-3 is...
A. B. C. D.

An oil drum having radius 35 cm and high 1.2 m. If the price of oil per liter is Rp800,00, so the price of 1 oil drum is…
A. Rp369.600,00 C. Rp389.600,00
B. Rp369.800,00 D. Rp398.600,00



The result of the examination is presents as follow:
He looked to the upside for 1 time
He looked to the outside for 25 times
He took his hands to his head for 13 times
He played the chair by his legs for 6 times

I will analyze the result of this research. Object’s concentration is disturbed because the noisy that came from outside. The noisy is more interesting for him. It’s proven by how often he looked to the outside. If we draw an average, he looked outside around 2 minutes for each time he looked outside. It made him be not focus on the problem. Ultimately, he didn’t finish the task optimally.
THE POWER OF CATEGORY AND NETWORKING

According Immanuel Kant, there are 4 mind’s aspects which in human mind, i.e.: quality, quantity, relation, and category. By more intention and awareness, it will create a mathematics education phenomenon. For instance, a teacher gives a picture of cube. What require to be thought is size and shape for called it a cube. Otherwise about matter or how much we needed to make a cube is not important. This matter needn’t be thought, throw away to epoche.
On mathematics education phenomenon there are two aspect i.e. teaching and learning. On learning process, the phenomena of teaching and learning of mathematics must be science. It’s core of learning. So that, we need a cogitation. The cogitation is consist of two kinds, button-up or top-down ( begin from theory which needs reference from book, journal and research report).
Otherwise the science itself focuses on student’s mathematics thinking which it got from reference. For instance, such like Katagiri said about student’s mathematics learning. There are 3 types: attitude, method, content.
Student’s mathematics learning is seen as a frame work of the nature school mathematics can be figure as follow:
Pattern Problem solving investigation Communication
Attitude
Method
Content

By investigating the table above, we can conclude that for every mind aspect which is expressed by Immanuel Kant, it could be categorized as three types of contain in student’s mathematics learning that is expressed by Katagiri, and also if we investigate deeper, there is a correlation between thinking aspects and type of contains of student’s mathematics learning that is expressed by Katagiri which is called as networking. Based on the conclusion above, the table above can be categorized and be a networking. So we can draw a theory.