Student Interaction in Learning Mathematics in Classroom

DOI

10.2991/esic-18.2019.26How to use a DOI?

Keywords

student interaction, learning mathematics. descriptive qualitative

Abstract

This research was a descriptive qualitative research which intended to find out the description about the interaction between students and teacher in the classroom and to find out the factors which underlay the interaction between teacher and students in the learning process at Grade XI of SMA Negeri 5 Samarinda. This research was conducted from August to October 2015. The subject of this research was the students of Grade XI of SMA Negeri Samarinda, while the object of this research was the interactions between students and teacher as well as the factors which influenced the interactions in the material of matrix, flower, growth and decay. The data were collected though observation, documentation, and interview. The data were analyzed through data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and the data were validated through triangulation. The observation was conducted 10 times and the students’ notes as well as some activities of students and teacher during the teaching and learning process were documented. The activities included the time when the teacher explained the lesson, when the students worked with exercises in front of the class and other activities in the material of matrix, flower, growth and decay. The interview was conducted to 9 students who represented the active and the passive students during the learning process. The interview focused on the factors which underlay the interaction between teacher and students during the teaching learning process. The research finding showed that the interaction which occurred in the teaching and learning process comprised of some types such as follows: giving motivation to students; asking students to read the example of the problems on the student book; explaining the lessons, providing exercises, questions and answers between teacher and students, and group discussions. The result of interview showed that the factors which underlay the interaction between teacher and students were as follows: (1) The efforts made by the teacher to maximize the use of facilities which supported the occurrence of interaction.; (2) The students’ interest in learning math; (3) Students’ Intelligence; (4) The perception that the existing subjects were important; (5) The classroom condition which did not support the number of students in the classroom; and (6) The utilization of learning resources by students. Therefore, the research findings showed that there were interactions between teacher and students in the teaching and learning of mathematics. The interactions covered one-way interaction, two-way interaction and multi-way interaction. The factors which underlay the occurrence of the three types of interaction were the factors of teacher, student, instructional material and situation.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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