The development of algebra teaching materials to foster students’ creative thinking skills in higher education

Abstract

Students' creative potential must be developed. The purpose of this study is to develop algebra teaching materials to foster students' creative thinking skills at universities that are valid, practical and effective. The model of Plomp was used in this study that consisted of several stages including validation by experts, validation by practitioners and field trials. Based on the validation results, the algebra materials were valid. While from the observation results, the implementation test was considered practical and effective. Thus, algebra teaching materials can be used by lecturers in algebra courses in the mathematics education department in higher education.