The effect of contextual teaching and learning approach and motivation of learning on the ability of understanding the mathematics concepts of grade V student

Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this study was to obtain information about the effect of the CTL approach and learning motivation on the ability to understand mathematical concepts in class V students. This research is a quasy type experimental research. The population is all students in class V SDN Gugus I Kecamatan Tanjung Harapan Solok City and the sample is 57 students in grade V SDN 01 Tanjung Paku. This sampling technique uses randomized sampling. Research data is obtained from the ability to understand mathematical concepts and questionnaires. The results of the study showed that: (1) The ability to understand mathematical concepts of students participating in learning with the Contextual Teaching and Learning approach was better than using conventional learning; (2) the ability to understand the mathematical concepts of students who have high learning motivation who follow learning with the Contextual Teaching and Learning approach is better than using conventional learning; (3) The ability to understand mathematical concepts of students who have low learning motivation who follow learning with the Contextual Teaching and Learning approach is better than using conventional learning; (4) There is no significant interaction between the Contextual Teaching and Learning approach and students ‘learning motivation on the ability to understand students’ mathematical concepts.