Pengembangan Soal Berbasis Literasi Matematika dengan Menggunakan Konteks Jawa Timur

Abstract

Abstract

Mathematical literacy, the ability which describes a person’s capacity to formulate, employ, and interpret mathematics in a variety of context, mathematical literacy is very important because it can help to understand the usefulness or role of mathematics in everyday life, so that mathematical literacy become the relation of understanding in the classroom with the real world. The problems of mathematical literacy give priority to the context of real life, the context is directly related to the surround of students.

This research is development research that the result is a set of problems based on mathematical literacy that using context East Java by referring to the valid, practical, and potential effects. This research uses development stages Design research type development study with detail: (1) Preliminary, (2) Self Evaluation, (3) One-to-one, (4) Expert Reviews, (5) Small Group, (6) Field Test. Validation process is done on two validator, one of Unesa’s mathematics lecturer and one teacher of mathematics subject of High School Al-Azhar Gresik.

Subjects on this study were 10th grade high school students precisely at 10 INT C high school Gresik academic year 2016/2017 which amounted to 5 children in the small group stage and 5 children at field test.  The results show that the developed questions meet the valid criteria of 3.58 from a maximum score of 4.00 and meet the practical criteria of 3.12 from a maximum score of 4.00 based on the analysis results of one-to-one, expert reviews, and small groups, and the problems developed have potential effects generating basic mathematical skills such as reasoning and argument, communicating and increasing the motivation and feelings of challenged learners based on the analysis of field test results.

Keywords: Development Problems, Mathematical Literacy, East Java Context.