Improving Children's Geometry Recognition Skills Through the Eva Sponge Mat Geometry Jump Game

Abstract

The ability to recognize geometry is one part of mathematical-logical learning that is important to develop in early childhood because at this age range children begin to be able to interact with their environment and begin to explore objects related to their daily lives. With honed mathematical-logical abilities, children can be trained to think rationally so that they can learn to solve the difficulties they encounter well. The ability to recognize geometry of children aged 3-4 years at PPT Al-Hidayah Semampir Surabaya is still low considering that only 6% of children can name, point to and group geometric shapes correctly and independently. This is related to the learning methods used, most of which are conventional methods that are mostly carried out by lectures with blackboards and worksheets. Based on these problems, the researcher designed a classroom action research to improve the ability to recognize geometric shapes of children aged 3-4 years through a geometric jump game with eva sponge mat media. This research was conducted in 2 cycles referring to the PTK design by Kemmis and Taggart which consists of planning, action, observation and reflection. The results of the study showed that there was an increase in the ability to recognize geometric shapes in each cycle. This is evident in the pre-cycle, the child's ability is only 6%, in the BSH and BSB categories and increases to 60% in cycle I and continues to increase to 80% in cycle II. Based on this increase, it can be concluded that the geometric jump game with the eva sponge mat media is able to improve the ability to recognize geometric shapes in children in the 3-4 year age group.