Inquiry learning strategy to improve mathematics achievement of junior high school

Abstract

The outline of this research issue is whether use of the learning strategies inkuiri can improve the results of VII A graders of SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Medan T.P. 2016/2017, whether the use of learning strategies inkuiri can improve learning activities of students of Class VII A graders of SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Medan T.P. 2016/2017. The research aims to find out how to increase the results of learning math grade VII A graders of SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Medan T.P. 2016/2017, to find out if the use of inkuiri learning strategies can improve student learning activities Class VII A graders of SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Medan T.P. 2016/2017. This type of research is Research Action class (PTK). Instrument in the form of tests and Observation. The subject of research is the grade VII A VII A graders of SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Medan T.P. 2016/2017 as many as 37 people. The object of his research is the use of inkuiri learning strategies to increase student learning results SMP Muhammadiyah 57 Medan T.P. 2016/2017. On cycle I the percentage of student learning outcomes of 40.54% and an average student learning activities of 1.8 with criteria enough, in cycle II percentage of student learning outcomes the overall percentage of 51.37% and an average student learning activities amounting to 2.2 with criteria enough, in cycle III the percentage of student learning outcomes the overall percentage of 86.49% and average learning activities of students 2.7 with criteria good. Then it can be inferred that the student learning outcomes can be improved by using the learning strategy inquiry.