Augmented Reality for Integer Learning: Investigating its potential on students' critical thinking

Abstract

Research on critical thinking has been carried out by researchers. Critical thinking is one of the four skills students must have before the 21st century. In recent years Augmented Reality (AR) technology has provided opportunities by making learning more interesting, that able to visualizing mathematical objects in the real world. This research was conducted in a remote area of Bawean Island after the mathematics teachers participated in Augmented Reality-based mathematics learning media development program. The sample of the study was 95 students of 7th grade junior high school from five schools on Bawean Island. Investigation of the potential use of Augmented Reality technology to critical thinking skills, carried out by providing students with pretest and posttest critical thinking skills. Also, student responses were considered in this study. The results of our analysis, the ability of student's critical thinking skills after the use of AR-based media is better than before the use of AR-based media, and students give a very good response to the use of AR-based media in this integer learning.