MY SMALL RESEARCH

MY SMALL RESEARCH

THE POWER OF SCHOOL MATHEMATICS AND CHARISMATIC MATHEMATICS TEACHER

Every I ask some children, “Do you love Mathematics?”, we can guess what will they say. Almost of them will say, “NO…!!!”.
Yeah! I think it’s funny but so ironic. Honestly, when I was young (in elementary school) I also didn’t love Mathematics. Even, I hate Mathematics. It happens because the Mathematics materials are too difficult for us to understand and just contain from numbers and also formulas. Our teacher not really friendly with us and sometimes she got angry.
For about 10 years later, now I can understand why many children (include my little cousins) didn’t love (even hate) Mathematics. It caused from the Mathematics teacher and the materials itself. Their teacher didn’t use school Mathematics method to teach their student. They use axioms and pure Mathematics. They just give their students many of numbers, formulas, and also oriented with the ‘costs’ or final answer. They didn’t explain the process how we got that formulas or how we analyze and solve the problem, etc. They didn’t tell their student what is the function of our effort in solve Mathematics problem, so that the students couldn’t enjoy learning mathematics.
Ebutt and Straker (1995) explained about the nature of School Mathematics. Teacher shouldn’t use Mathematics axioms definitions but school Mathematics definitions. There are Mathematics realities:
a. Mathematics as an identify pattern and relation activity.
Teacher should give opportunity for their students to discover and investigate the pattern in Mathematics problem to find its relation of each others. It also can stimulate the student to do their experiments and understand the materials then make the conclusion.
It didn’t apply in school, so the students still have perception that Mathematics is difficult.
b. Mathematics is a creativity that need of imaginations, intuitions, and discovery.
By applying Mathematics school, we can support students to think different and explore their curiosity. It also can stimulate them to think critically, logically, consistently, systematically and appreciate people’s opinion.
We can apply this by giving task to our student to make some FGD (Focus Group Discussion) and command them to present their discussion result in front of the class, so the student become active learner and enjoy the Mathematics learning process.
c. Mathematics is a communication way between teacher and student so that they have the same perception about Mathematics itself, for example the characteristics, problem stories, concepts, etc (marsigitpsiko.blogspot.com)
My junior high school teacher, Mrs. Diah is so inspiring for me because they can build her student spirit in learning Mathematics and make us love Mathematics. I was falling in love with Mathematics when I was in 3rd grade of junior high school. She taught me with love and patient. She is so charismatic. She is a friendly teacher so we were not afraid to ask her for consultation or suggestion.
Mrs. Diah had a charismatic teacher who had applied the Mathematics school. She didn’t only explain pure (axioms) Mathematic but also school Mathematics.



Sources:
marsigitpsiko.blogspot.com