Dienes AEM as an alternative mathematics teaching aid to enhance Indonesian students’ understanding of algebra concept
S Soro, S Maarif, Y Kurniawan and A Raditya
E-mail: slamet.soro@yahoo.co.id
Abstract. The aim of this study is to find out the effect of Dienes AEM (Algebra Experience
Materials) on the ability of understanding concept of algebra on the senior high school student
in Indonesia. This research is an experimental research with subject of all high school students
in Indonesia. The samples taken were high school students in three provinces namely DKI
Jakarta Province, West Java Province and Banten Province. From each province was taken senior
high school namely SMA N 9 Bekasi West Java, SMA N 94 Jakarta and SMA N 5 Tangerang,
Banten. The number of samples in this study was 114 high school students of tenth grade as
experimental class and 115 high school students of tenth grade as control class. Learning algebra
concept is needed in learning mathematics, besides it is needed especially to educate students to
be able to think logically, systematically, critically, analytically, creatively, and cooperation.
Therefore in this research will be developed an effective algebra learning by using Dienes AEM.
The result of this research is that there is a significant influence on the students' concept
comprehension ability taught by using Dienes AEM learning as an alternative to instill the
concept of algebra compared to the students taught by conventional learning. Besides, the
students' learning motivation increases because students can construct the concept of algebra
with props.
Full article: disini
IOP Conf. Series: Journal of Physics: Conf. Series 948 (2017) 012044
doi :10.1088/1742-6596/948/1/012044
