Application of Cooperative Learning Type Teams Games Tournament (TGT) to Increase the Student's Activity

摘要

This research is motivated by the experience of the author during the field study and practice activities at a senior high school at Malang. At the school, the author taught mathematics for 10th-grade students. The author used cooperative learning strategies to teach. But, many students were not excited and they were not active in class. From the literature, we can see that the Teams Games Tournament (TGT) cooperative learning can be conducted to increase student's activity. The purpose of this research is to describe the application of this kind of cooperative learning to the activities of the students when they study mathematics. The steps of TGT cooperative learning that can increase student activity are 1) class presentation, the teacher explains a mathematics concept to the students by class discussion. The teacher, as a facilitator, helps our students to find the concept by asking some question; 2) group discussion, students were divided into several groups, and each group is given some problems that have to be solved by discussion. 3) games and tournaments, some questions are shown on the LCD screen, then one of the students choose one question. The other students scramble to answer questions. The teacher gives a score to the student's answer. The scores from games and tournaments were accumulated to determine the best team; 4) group awards, the teacher gives awards to the group that gets the highest score. By this research, the students got new experience because they learned mathematical concept while played games. With the implementation of cooperative learning TGT type, the students'activeness in Algebraic operation on function is increasing.