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This research aims to understand the result of mathematical learning of Class IV student in elementary school.
(1) Discovering the influence of the Contextual Approach to the student’s motivation.
(2) Discovering whether the Contextual Approach can increase student’s motivation by equalizing the denominator for the class IV students. The Research uses descriptive method by using inferential statistical analysis
technique. “Descriptive method is a method that focuses to solving current and actual issues. Inferential statistical technique is a statistical method to analyses sample data and creating general inference for the population.”
(Nisfiannoor, 2009:4). The approach used by the research is the quantitative approach. Quantitative approach is a research approach that uses statistical technique to test hypotheses and research instrument to be used to uncover data in a certain measurement scale, to be able to create a generalized statement for the whole population.
(Sudjana and Ibrahim, 2004:8). There are several conclusions to be inferred from the result of the research. From the cyclical analysis, the improvement of the learning capacity was successfully implemented in the cycle I, cycle II, or even cycle III. Cycle I experienced an increase in average class scores from 42 to 72. Cycle II also experienced increasing from 72 to 81. While Cycle III experienced increasing from 81 to 83. The increases in scores are due to the improvement in the teacher’s teaching method by implementing contextual approach. The approach ultimately increases the students’ enjoyment of the learning, leading to an increase in the motivation for learning, therefore increasing the result of the learning itself. If the learning result improves, the quality of the education in the school also improves.

As a social media, WhatsApp is a messenger application that allows us to send files,
messages, pictures, videos and online chatting as if Blackberry Messenger, but WhatsApp is
more popular in iPhone users. WhatsApp first release is on iPhone by Apple, and in its
development, now it’s available in Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and also Symbian
version. It’s also the most downloaded application in the world these days, especially for
smartphone users. To operate WhatsApp, it needs no credit like text messaging, because it
only needs internet data
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EDGE/3G
)
or wifi. WhatsApp user’s contact can be automatically
detected on our smartphone devices, if our phone contacts are also using WhatsApp
Messenger.
The purpose of this writing paper is to give instant comprehension about using
WhatsApp media on baby’s growth and development activities which babysitted on child day
care. True, baby is inseparable from how their childhood educational proceed in the family.
Every parents are given mandate to take care the birth and first steps of human lives. Through
parent’s hand, every helpless little babies are gently loved with warmth, given nutritions, and
also breastfeeding, etc. In the other side, for the sake of decent living and survival, young
mothers have a limited time so that they need to put their babies in the child day care.
Several notable ideas in this writing can be referral to many parties. Especially about
the importance of WhatsApp as a media for child day care supervision. WhatsApp is used to
create and establish communication between parents and the day care. Parents usually left
their babies from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. This day care is truly an answer to parent’s limited
time for taking care of their children. In this writing, the writer situated the WhatsApp
Messenger as an effective means with hope that it is capable to bridge the communication
between day care and parents so that lessons taught to the babies in the day care can be
shared to their parents, so children can continue the lessons at home. Also through WhatsApp
media, teachers and parents can share plenty information about children, either in education,
health, as well in parenting.

This article is written to understand the Gender Based Family Financial
Literacy Management. The recurring problem in the family finance is overspending
and minimum income; therefore there is a need for a financial planning in the family.
Most family did make some family financial planning. However this kind of planning
is not sufficient, because there are always unpredictable expenses in every month.
Therefore, to overcome those problems, to plan the family expenses are not enough,
there must also be some familial budget planning. One of the skills a mother has to
have is a financial skill to properly manage family finance. By applying the proper
financial management, the family can reap maximum benefit from their assets. The
mother had to possess the financial management know – how in managing family
finances. As a conclusion, familial financial management education has a positive
correlation with financial literacy by making and recording family monthly expenses
so as to be able to better plan their family financial budget. A mother has to had a
home-grown financial literacy.

This study aims to find out enhancement of students’ mathematical reflective thinking ability through
knowledge sharing learning strategy in Senior High School. The method of study used quasi
experiment by non-equivalent control group design. The population of this study are eighth grader
students of Senior High School in Tangerang City, Banten Province. Sampling technique used cluster
random sampling with the numbers of students are 140 students. The instruments used in the form
prior mathematical knowledge test and mathematical reflective thinking ability test. Data analysis are
done by requisite test, namely data normality test (Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z Test) and homogeneity
test (Levene Test). The statistic analysis of the data was conducted with one-way ANOVA, two-way
ANOVA, and Scheffe Test. The results of study are as follows: (1) there is enhancement difference
of mathematical reflective thinking ability of the students learning with knowledge sharing strategy
and conventional learning; (2) there is enhancement difference of mathematical reflective thinking
ability between students learning with knowledge sharing strategy (KSS) and conventional learning
based on school level and prior mathematical knowledge (MPK) of students (higher, middle,
lower); (3) The interaction between learning strategy (KSS) and prior mathematical knowledge
(higher, middle, lower) influenced student’s enhancement of mathematical reflective thinking
ability.

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menelaah peningkatan kemampuan koneksi dan komunikasi matematik siswa SMP yang diterapkan pembelajaran kontekstual berbantuan program Geometer’s Sketchpad dibandingkan dengan siswa yang diterapkan pembelajaran konvensional, keterkaitan antara kemampuan koneksi dan komunikasi matematis, sikap siswa terhadap pembelajaran kontekstual berbantuan program Geometer’s Sketchpad, dan aktivitas siswa selama pembelajaran kontekstual berbantuan program Geometer’s Sketchpad berlangsung. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain quasi eksperimen dengan kelompok kontrol pretes dan postes. Kelompok eksperimen memperoleh pembelajaran kontekstual berbantuan program Geometer’s Sketchpad dan kelompok kontrol memperoleh pembelajaran konvensional. Untuk mendapatkan data hasil penelitian digunakan instrumen berupa tes kemampuan koneksi, komunikasi matematis dan lembar observasi. Subjek penelitian siswa SMP Negeri 3 Tangerang di Propinsi Banten dengan subjek sampel adalah siswa kelas VII sebanyak dua kelas dari sepuluh kelas yang ada dipilih secara acak. Hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu: (1)Terdapat perbedaan peningkatan kemampuan koneksi dan komunikasi matematik antara kelompok siswa yang belajar dengan menggunakan pendekatan kontekstual dibandingkan dengan siswa yang belajar dengan pendekatan konvensional; (2) Terdapat korelasi positif yang cukup antara kemampuan koneksi dan komunikasi matematik siswa; (3) Pembelajaran dengan menggunakan pendekatan kontekstual memperlihatkan motivasi dan keterlibatan siswa yang baik sehingga terbangun suatu masyarakat belajar dengan suasana yang kondusif.

A wise man said that “you will never be a pious when you never feel loneliness”, because loneliness can be used as an indicator of someone’s level of piety. In loneliness, the awareness of God’s existence can be felt, because in loneliness a person will not be affected by motives that come from the encouragement or motivation of the other persons’ prensence. Meanwhile someone’s piety which is shown in the public, according to the author it is very difficult to assess the real of sincerity. There are thousands motives when someone do observance in the middle of the social communities. This research used a qualitative research method with phenomenological research tradition, in the terms of Lindlof (1995:27) it is called as an interpretive paradigm which is refered to the communication research with qualitative methods that perform the tradition of phenomenology, ethnometodology, symbolic interaction, ethnography and cultural studies.

According to Krashen’s affective filter hypothesis, students who are highly motivated
have a strong sense of self, enter a learning context with a low level of anxiety, and are much
more likely to become successful language acquirers than those who do not. Affective factors,
such as motivation, attitude, and anxiety, have a direct impact on foreign language acquisition.
Horwitz et al. (1986) mentioned that many language learners feel anxious when learning foreign
languages. Thus, this study recruits 100 college students to fill out the Foreign Language
Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) to investigate language learning anxiety. Then, this study
designs and develops an affective tutoring system (ATS) to conduct an empirical study. The
study aims to improve students’ learning interest by recognizing their emotional states during
their learning processes and provide adequate feedback. It is expected to enhance learners’
motivation and interest via affective instructional design and then improve their learning
performance.

In this paper, we describe a prototype of web-based intelligent handwriting education
system for autonomous learning of Bengali characters. Bengali language is used by more than
211 million people of India and Bangladesh. Due to the socio-economical limitation, all of the
population does not have the chance to go to school. This research project was aimed to develop
an intelligent Bengali handwriting education system. As an intelligent tutor, the system can
automatically check the handwriting errors, such as stroke production errors, stroke sequence
errors, stroke relationship errors and immediately provide a feedback to the students to correct
themselves. Our proposed system can be accessed from smartphone or iPhone that allows
students to do practice their Bengali handwriting at anytime and anywhere. Bengali is a
multi-stroke input characters with extremely long cursive shaped where it has stroke order
variability and stroke direction variability. Due to this structural limitation, recognition speed is
a crucial issue to apply traditional online handwriting recognition algorithm for Bengali
language learning. In this work, we have adopted hierarchical recognition approach to improve
the recognition speed that makes our system adaptable for web-based language learning. We
applied writing speed free recognition methodology together with hierarchical recognition
algorithm. It ensured the learning of all aged population, especially for children and older
national. The experimental results showed that our proposed hierarchical recognition algorithm
can provide higher accuracy than traditional multi-stroke recognition algorithm with more
writing variability.

Revitalisasi Pendidikan Muhammadiyah di Tengah Persaingan Nasional dan Global Link Artikel : http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/57/ Author : Abstrak : Silahkan Download di : http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/57/1/Revitalisasi%20Pendidikan%20Muhammadiyah.pdf