Elegi Pemberontakan Pendidikan Matematika 9: School Mathematics

Elegi Pemberontakan Pendidikan Matematika 9: School Mathematics 

By Marsigit

Reflected by Diah Hapsari Widyarini

Ebbut and Straket (1995) defined School Mathematics or known by The Nature of School Mathematics. There are four points, they are:
•    Mathematics is a search for patterns a  relationship.
•    Mathematics is a problem solving activity..
•    Mathematics an investigation activity.
•    Mathematics the means of communication

The nature of school mathematics belong to elementary school, junior high school, and senior high school. From the four the nature of school mathematics will create innovative learning in the learning process of the students to dominate or called student-centered. This way will develop students' creative ideas to solve problems and do not depend on the method that has been given by the teacher. The students are eligible to use a variety of methods that s/he found, the teacher just as a facilitator. In an innovative learning, less appropriate when the teachers feel that s/he is the most intelligent person in the class, because nowadays condition of the students are unpredictable, especially with more advanced Information and Technology.