Collaborative Learning and Caring Community in Mathematics Learning by using Student’s Worksheet Based on Scientific Approach

Abstract

Mathematics teaching and learning process will be efficient and effective if it is supported by high quality of materials learning, especially Student’s Worksheet (SW). Student’s worksheet of Mathematics in Curriculum 2013 must possess 5 phases, in which they are observing, questioning, exploring, associating, and communicating. This research was intended to describe caring community on numbers material through student’s worksheet that based on scientific approach at SMPN 1 Situbondo. In this research, the data were analyzed by qualitative research. The data were collected through observation and interview. The results of this research can be summed up into, (1) the quality of interaction between students in a group was good, the high-level student gave some scaffoldings to junior high school students, and they gave some scaffoldings to lower-level students, but the interaction between high-level student and lower-level student was not so good, (2) the activity in the solving the questions on worksheet was considered well. In observation phase, all students observed problem and task one by one and discuss edit together about how to determine 𝑎 𝑚 𝑎 𝑛 , and its application. In questioning phase, some students within several groups asked and discussed the process and the result of 𝑎 𝑚

𝑎 𝑛 , but there were several students who just observed and copied the problems. During associating phase, some students communicated their idea of how to simplify 𝑎 𝑚 𝑎 𝑛 to 𝑎 𝑚 −𝑛 through oral discussion and doing the SW, the other one showed another way, and the others wrote on their SW. In associating phase, all students solved problems and tasks, but they found several wrong, thus, some students said that their answers were wrong, asked the students in their group and discussed the others’ explanations about the meaning of 𝑎 𝑚 𝑎 𝑛 , if 𝑚 = 𝑛, 𝑚 < 𝑛 and 𝑚 > 𝑛. The last, in communicating phase, one of students in group explained the conclusion of 𝑎 𝑚 𝑎 𝑛 and its application, and if the teacher asked him about his explanation, the other students in his group would answer it. It can be concluded that the quality of interaction and caring community on mathematics teaching and learning process was good.