What? Why? How?
Why
the sky is blue? The answer is in grandfa’s opinion, the sky is blue. It just
similar with “Why do you like writting?”
Well,
it is the beginning of our lesson today. My lecture tell me many things about
mathematics education, and this is the reflection.
Firstly,
when my lecture was a student like me, he thought that mathematics is only one,
and all perseption was change when my lecture graduated from his graduate
program in United Kingdom. He realise that mathematics is not the only one.
Even the power of mathematics depend on how much people like and think it.
In
the workshop that held on March 2nd 2013 ago, Prof. Dr. Widodo told
us many things about mathematics. He told us about high class mathematics. He
told about theorema and some knowledge about mathematics.
Mathematics
in the mountain’s peak is only imagination for children. The figure of
mathematics such as Newton, Lewis, etc, they are not over here. Seems like an
abstract thing that have to be imaginated by students. Why? Because they can’t
know the figure as well.
My lecture more cares wih someone
who learn mathematics in the valley. They feel so hard to climb the mountain.
They study hard and press their mind to understand the lesson. For the
elementary school students, they are to hard to understanding the lesson. Why?
Because they pressed to study abstractism. They are forced to study about
theory, about something that have been to be high level lesson.
Because of all forces above, the
effect is students become stress, depressed, and kesurupan. Many things happend when students try to climb the
mountain of mathematics. Not every one can pass the obstacle, many people give
up to climbou any more. It takes many symphaties from my lecture.
Looking for someone who is in the
valley, may not go to England. They are is around us. They still awaiting for
someone who want to reaches out a hand to bring them climb higher and hinger
again. They walk, they run to reach the peak of mathematics mountain. There are
high level of mathematics (formal, axiomatic, and pure mathematics)
As college students or lecture, we
have to pick the ball. What it’s mean? We have to pick them to climbing the
mountain together. We have to understand what they need, not to force them to
be what we want. The most stupid person in the world is someone who can
not. adapted situation around. Someone
who are very arrogant and selfish. Someone who equalize between mathematics in
elementary school and mathematics in college.
As
flying over from the sky, we must have a creative methode when we try to reach
something. If we just use one methode in a long periode, we can not develop our
self. We just try staticly because there are no result of their effort.
We
have to smart faces life. To be smart in our life must give an effort. We have
to adapted our self with the situation and condition. Javanesse people say that
someone who is polite, he must be smart and understand how is the real life.
Other
wise, politely is not only in our daily activity, but in the science, it must
be there. Mathematics must be polite too. Mathematisc have to be suitable with
the atmosfer, environment, and situation. In the other side, the definition of
pure mathematics is meaningless, esspecially in elementary school’s students.
So the government who taken care the education in school, is not polite yet
with the students.
Mathematisc should be an activity.
For the students, mathematics is an activity to looking for the pattern.
Mathematics is also an activity to solve problem, an activity to investigate
the natural indication, and an activity to comunicate with the other.
Nowaday, the government who make the
curriculum do not think about student’s normal capability. Students is feeded
with the high level of mathematics. Students will be depressed by all the high
level curriculum. That’s why my lecture against this rule.
My
lecture used the technology of internet to against the rule of education. My
lecture writes some article about elegy of mathematics education. There are
many critizm in his blog. My lecture hopes for the changing of mathematics
education to be better aducation. My lecture says like a student’s groan to
have a freedom in the study. My lecture write the article for us, and it is directed
to the government who are in the tower.
He
writes many article to critism Indonesian education. For him, students are his
soul to write. Students are his hope to write. Because, mathematics is the mean
of comunication. In the mathematics, we are not just try to do the exercise,
but we have to listen, to read, to understand, and so on. He really want to
make this aim will be reached, that mathematics is the mean or the activity of
comunication.
Long
time ago, in greek, there was a great person, he is Hermenitika God. He is demigod
man. People believe that he can hear God’s whisper. Some people was doing reset
to understan the truth, and they found something that called “Silaturahim”.
Besides
of many result, the best methode in everything is following sunatullah (suitable with the destiny).
It is the natural way to reach the succes. If we learn to the nature, to the
God’s creature, we’ll find the natural arrangement, and it will be very
beautyful. The sprout, how is it growing, spliting, looking for solar etc? The
bird, how is it fly, looking for some food etc? They all learn, identificate,
and investigate.
And
so, what is the best way to study for us? The best way is reflection. We have
to reflect who we are. We have to reflect what do we heard, what do we translete, what do we look
etc. Beside of to reflect, to keep in touch with language is needed to do when
we will learn something. Keep in touch with the book, the internet, the lecture
etc.
The
reflection will step by step constract our mind. Habluminallah and
Habluminannas, my lecture said in the lesson. It will pick us up to the heaven
and so we have to be kind in our daily activity.
Dheni : What should teachers do to
make students pay attention to the techer?
There are nothing to do to make the
students pay attention to the teacher. Why should the students pay attention?
Nothing... The students just should be understand their own capability and pay
attention in something they don’t know or something that make them curious.
What is good student?
The
good student is the student who can feel that it is good. The student who feel
fun and free when he/she study. When the teacher say that “mathematics is
beautyful”, students who were in the valley cried. They fetl like the mountain
will exploded etc. They screamed aloud. When the teacher said “how beautiful
mathematics is”, it is a very dare things. It pressed the students. Exceptly,
when he/she say by his/her will to say “how beautiful mathematics is” it is the
true unpredictable story.
Anwar : How to make student learn
mathematics easily?
Without
feel, the arrogantism, ang its a very clear statement that say that nowaday we
have climb the mount. This is an arrogant statement. God just won’t change our
fate if we don’t change it our self. So why we think to change the other
perception?
“How to make students....?”
this word seems like an arrogant wods, it should be “How to
facility students...?” it will seems kinder than before. And it is the
students right to persave that mathematics is difficult. If the students are
not understanding yet, give them a chance to ask, a chance to explore deeper,
deeper, and deeper.
******
Novia Nuraini
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Mathematics
Education Class (2012)
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