Pengaruh Pendekatan Matematika Realistik Terhadap Motivasi Belajar dan Kemampuan Pemecahan Masalah

Abstract

This study aims to invetigate the effect of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) approach to the learning motivation and problem solving skills. This study is a quasi experiment, inwhich the pre-test and post-test was involved in the design setting. The population scoped all the 10^th-grade students of SMA 3 in Binjai where X-MIA1 and X-MIA2 were chosen as the experimental and control classe in which each class consists of 36 students. The instruments used in this study invloved questionnaire about students’ learning motivation and the test of problem solving skills. The percentage of learning motivation in experiment class where the RME averaged 50% and 92,38%; while the mean of problem solving skills of the experiment class ranged 51,27 and 81,75 before and after the classroom implementation. The hypotehsis test of this study used the r-test. The result shows that the r_test of the students’ learning motivation from the experiment class is 0,87 while r_table = 0,329, thus  r_test > r_table. Furthermore, the resuls of problem solving skills yields r_test = 0,77 and r_table = 0,329 which implies r_test > r_table.