PENERAPAN STRATEGI HEURISTIK DALAM UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENYELESAIKAN SOAL CERITA PADA PENERAPAN PERBANDINGAN DI SMP

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to improve students' skills in solving story matter on the comparison application through stages of thinking sequence and to minimize students' difficulties in solving story matter on the comparison application of in Junior High School. The subjects in this study were students in VII-E grade of SMP State 20th of Surakarta in academic year 2010/2011, which comprised 34 students with details of 16 male and 18 female students. The experiment was conducted with a class action approach is divided into three cycles, and the learning process takes place in late of September to mid of October 2011. The results showed that by applying heuristic learning strategies, students can solve story matter in comparison application with good and right, as indicated by the quiz in the end of grades as follows: value of 100 (2,94%), value of 90-99 (5,88 %), value of 80-89 (29,41%), value of 70-79 (8,82%), value of 60-69 (47,06%) and only 5,88% of students who scored below 60.