Isti Hidayah, Sugiarto, Dwijanto
Referring to the purpose of mathematics learning, the important aspect in mathematics learning is improving the students' problem solving ability. Meanwhile, problem solving in mathematics needs thinking ability. The learning required by the Indonesian curriculum is learning with scientific approach. The characteristics of scientific approach within learning can be seen by the utilization of appropriate manipulatives. The purpose of limited testing in this research is to describe the implementation of scientific approach principles within manipulative-assisted learning in primary education. The result of limited testing among the three types of learning shows a positive students' motivation (scored 78 of maximum 100) and the average of effectiviness score for the whole implementation of scientific approach is 75. The low effectiveness among the indicators of scientific approach implementation happened at the indicator of students asking, students asking started by teacher guidance, and students' opportunity to accommodate concepts-principles. Those indicators become the basic improvement and perfection of the manipulative product and its learning devices. © 2016, Serials Publications. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
