PENERAPAN PENDEKATAN CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL) UNTUK MEMBANTU SISWA MENGATASI KESALAHAN DALAM MENYELESAIKAN SOAL CERITA POKOK BAHASAN BILANGAN BULAT SISWA KELAS VII SEMESTER GANJIL SMP PLUS MIFTAHUL ARIFIN TAHUN AJARAN 2013/2014

Abstract

Abstract. There are many students who have difficulty in solving math problems. Difficulties resulted in students making mistake in solving problems. The types of errors students comprised 4 types of errors are errors of interpretation, the use of signs or symbols errors, technical errors, and other errors. Therefore, the implemention of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach to overcome a students mistakes in solving story problem at integer odd semester VII SMP Plus Miftahul Arifin academic year 2013/2014. This research type is a Classroom Action Research (CAR). The data analysed in this research are student’s activity, student’s mistakes. The research show that student’s activity attain 65,48% in the first cycle and 72,62% in second cycle, student’s mistakes attain 50,72% in the first cycle and 34,28% in second cycle, It can be concluded that the application of cooperative learning model with Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) technic is effective to overcome student’s mistakes in solving problems.

Key Words: Cooperative learning contextual teaching and learning (CTL), student’s activity, student’s mistakes.