REFLECTION OF ETHNOMATHEMATICS

DON’T MAKE YOUR STUDENTS AFRAID TO STUDY!

VENTI INDIANI

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INT MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Talk about education will be never end. There are so many something new that attract to be discussed. We talk some case while Mr. Marsigit’s course, and we just admire him a lot just because of his reasonableness. How he can face the problems wisely. Well, there are some topics that we learn at that time, and I will tell you one by one.  First we discuss about formal education. Does formal education affect the quality of our life? It is parable container and its contain. We are as the container, then knowledge that we get from formal education is a contain. So however we just can’t free from formal education. Then, another problem will talk about method of learning. The most important thing that we should to realize that every grade of student have their own method. As educators we should to know how to treat elementary, junior high school, or senior high school they are, because the method will determine the learning process will be success or not. After that, educators must have innovative way during learning process. Since traditional way considered can’t make the students explore them self. They just wait for teacher explanation. In innovative way, educators suggested to give freedom for students to develop their skill. Educators facilitate what students need, then control what have the students done in order to make students not misconception. In other problem, there is a question, it’s ok if teacher determine the student’s style when they get study? As a wise educators, we don’t need to determine that. Why? Each student have their style, they have their own comfortable zone during they study, so actually educator don’t have any authority to determine how the students study. It is horrible enough when students are forced to study with certain style, because students will not be comfortable, then they tend to be afraid during the study. When students are not comfortable, or even they feel afraid during they study, it will make the student’s intuition lost. And when students don’t have any intuition, they will difficult to learn something. So, what we have to do as the next educators is how to create interesting and meaningful learning process so that can explore the student’s skill well.