The Effectivenes of Student Worksheet Based on Discovery Learning and Learning Sources From Batik Jambi

Abstract

there before and has been brought into being. The word ‘creativity’ covers a wide range of different skills. Creative skills needed to change concepts and perceptions (Awang & Ramly, 2008). Creative thingking ability in mathematics is an important component that should be posseassed by students dealing with their sensitiveness to mathematical problems, therefore they will be able to consider new information and ideas that enable them to make relations with open mind in solving mathematical problems and daily problems encountered (Puspitasari et al., 2018). This is reinforced by the opinion of Ginsburg that the essence of mathematics is not only determining the correct answer but thingking creatively (Singer & Voica, 2015). Based on this, the ability to think creatively is needed by students, especially to solve problems in real life. Abstract: The 2013 curriculum requires teachers to be more creative. One form of teacher creativity is developing teaching materials, including the student worksheet. Some teacher finds it difficult to do so for several reasons, so use student worksheets directly from the publisher. Based on the researcher’s interview with one of the mathematics teacher, information was obtained that not all students were interested in the existing student worksheets, because it was incomplete from the explanation of the material, as well as the results of interview with some students who said that they often had difficulties when learning to use worksheets existing students, because the explanation is incomplete and the use of the background does not all suit the situation around them, this results in learning being less effective. There are many ways that students can be active in learning so that learning is more effective, including by connecting mathematics with daily life, such as student worksheets with learning resources from batik jambi. The purpose of this study is to explain the effectiveness of the use student worksheets based on discovery learning and learning resources from batik jambi to improve students’ mathematical creative thinking skills. The method used is descriptive quantitative research, with the subject of grade 9 th at muaro jambi 7 public middle school (SMPN 7, Muaro Jambi). The results of this study indicate the use of discovery learning-based student worksheets and learning resources from batik jambi effectively improve students’ creative thinking skills and get positive responses from students and teachers.