Effectiveness of Garis Bilangan Pandawa Media for Improving The Learning Motivation and Skills on Counting Integers Operations on Integrative Thematic Learning of Grade IV Students

Abstract

Student learning outcomes are highly influenced by motivation and learning materials. The problem in the field indicated that the student's motivation is low and integer operations is one of the difficult learning materials Learning media become one of the ways that can be used to improving learning motivation and help students in understanding a material. This research aims to reveal the effectiveness of Garis Bilangan Pandawa for improving the learning motivation and skills to counting integers operations on integrative thematic learning of grade IV students. This research was quasi experiment with pretest-posttest group design. The subjects of the study were grade IV students and teachers from four elementary school in Cangkringan, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The instruments were motivation learning questionnaire and skill test completed integer operations. The data analysis used the independent sample t-test and paired sample ttest at the significance level of 0.05. The results show the Garis Bilangan Pandawa media effectively for improving the learning motivation and skills to counting integers operations on integrative thematic learning of grade IV students. The effectiveness of the media can be seen from the result of independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test which shows a significance value of 0.000. Keywords— garis bilangan pandawa media, motivation, integer operation skills