My Reflection at the Third Meeting

Our topic at the moment is the problem of mathematic teaching. At now, more teachers use traditional method. They still to use traditional method of teaching and learning of mathematic for student until now. They just transfer knowledge. They aren’t facilitator, but they are giver and the impact will happen to their student. The characteristic of student from traditional method e.g.:

1. The student learn passively
2. The student feel boring
3. The student sleepy during learning

The teachers don’t trust their student. They think that they have an obligation to deliver their knowledge and the student receive their knowledge, but in the fact the student receive empty vessel.

The traditional method of teaching and learning of mathematic have a difference of new method. The new method based on trust. The student need knowledge and they trust their teacher to become their facilitator. The teachers facilitate with various methods, resources, and equipments to teach.

In the fact, it is not easy to implement this innovative teaching, because our culture actually reflects the traditional method. So, when our younger sister and brother learn with various methods? This is nature, the traditional method became behavior. The learning method should adapt the situation, the dimension, the period. The learning method should up to date and don’t same with the pass period. The teachers usually still to use the method of pass period.

So, the education problem beginning from adult people, because they usually push the children (the student) to receive, whereas learning can we get from anywhere. Now, the student is unpredictable, especially too adolescent. Usual, the teacher isn’t ready with unpredictable student, because they always use the traditional method that they always just give, give, and give.

Therefore, knowledge not only gets from the teacher but also from anywhere. We must know the nature of all aspect of teaching and learning of mathematic e.g.:

1. The nature of school mathematic
2. The nature of student learning mathematic
3. The nature of learning resources
4.  and etc.

    There is method of deliver mathematic, formal mathematic and school mathematics. The formal mathematic use for university and the school mathematic use for elementary school until senior high school.  But sometimes, the teacher use formal mathematic for elementary school until senior high school, that why the student become hate the mathematic. If the teacher uses the wrong method, it will make the bad impact for the student. The student will hate mathematic and avoid mathematic. They can’t feel love mathematic. Love is intuition. So, the education problem at this moment is the children (the student) lost their intuition.