PEMBUDAYAAN MATEMATIKA DI SEKOLAH UNTUK MENCAPAI KEUNGGULAN BANGSA

By : Dr. Marsigit, M. A.

Reviewed by: Fikri Hermawan

Civilizing mathematics in the school have comprehension aspects about the nature of mathematics, school mathematics, mathematics education, mathematics value, mathematics study, mathematics learning, and the nature of civilizing school mathematics. Everything we talked about, absolutely there are two things are related, that is what is the object and what is the method. Therefore, object of mathematics is concrete things, picture, cube model, symbol of number, pyramid, right triangle, circle, and so on. Based on them, we know that the object of mathematics is in our environment.

The nature of mathematics become abstract, general, formal, objective, rasional based on content and method of formal mathematics. Moreover, the nature of learning mathematics is relate subjective knowledge and mathematics objective through social interaction to study and represent current science. To learn mathematics objective science, the students need to develop procedure. Through the procedure, students will get mathematics concept which actualized respectively. In the other hand, sometime subjective knowledge of mathematics accord to objective knowledge. To investigate, how the students have a corresponding between subjective and objective knowledge of mathematics, they can be given a chance to do publication activity. In the fact, mathematics publication activity can be an assignment from teacher, homework, making paper, also can be an examination.

Sosial interaction between students and teachers will give criticism to correct mathematics concept, so the students will get right concept. Futhermore, the nature of studying mathematics must be indicated with relation between objective and subjective knowledge of mathematics. Then, through “social negotiation processes”, civilize reconstruction of mathematics learning indicate that the new knowledge about mathematics can be in social scope or individual scope.

Civilizing mathematics through learning and communication of mathematics is important for students to be a golden nation. The effort to civilize mathematics in the school should using dimension of material mathematics or in transition dimension go to formal mathematics. Starting civilize mathematics in the school with redefine the nature of mathematics to the students. Then, civilizing mathematics can stress on relation among human and appreciate the individual difference. In this case, the students are regarded as progress human. And mathematics is regarded more humane, we can regard it as a language, human creativity, etc. Beside that, students have a chance to maintain and develop their abilities. So, everyone need difference chance, action, ang facilities in learning mathematics. In this case, the teacher be facilitator in learning process and the students are center of learning process. And about supervising is did by assesment approach, prtofolio, or autenthic assesment.