Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: November | Volume: 7 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 233-241
The Analysis of Students' Mathematical Critical Thinking Ability through Discovery Learning Models
Nurmayani
Postgraduate of Mathematics Education, Mathematics Education Department Lampung University, Jl. Prof. Dr. Ir. Sumantri Brojonegoro No.1 Kota Bandar Lampung 35141 Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Critical thinking ability is an important part of mathematics learning for students in solving mathematical problems. A student who has critical thinking skills is a student who able to analyze facts, generalize and organize ideas, draw conclusions, discuss arguments, and solve mathematical problem. The focus of research is to measure students' critical thinking skills in mathematics. One way to measure students' critical mathematical thinking skills is to apply discovery learning models.Discovery learning model is one of the learning models that involves students actively in the learning process. This model has learning steps that can be applied to measure mathematical critical thinking skills. The study was conducted by giving students questions about pre-test and post-test. Data obtained from the results of the pretest and posttest were analyzed to measure the level of critical thinking skills of students using the gain index formula.
Keywords: criticalthinking ability, mathematics learning,, discovery learning, mathematic education, learning models, critical thinking skills.
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