Ary Woro Kurniasih, - (2019) The stimulus for facilitating junior high school student's thinking in mathematics. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, International Conference on Mathematics, Science and Education, 1321 (2). ISSN 1742-6596

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These research aims were described teacher's stimulus in mathematics learning for developing thinking the skill of Junior High School students grade VIII, and perceived teacher's perception about a scientific approach and thinking of Junior High School students grade VIII. This descriptive-qualitative research involved professional working group for mathematics that is the Association of Mathematics Teacher (Musyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran, MGMP) in Semarang. The first step of the research was forum group discussion with 19 mathematics teachers grades VIII in Association of Mathematics Teacher Semarang. The second step was research in SMPN 23 Semarang and SMPN 36 Semarang. Data collection techniques include a questionnaire about teacher's stimulus for facilitating student's thinking; a questionnaire about students response based on teacher's stimulus; a survey about teacher's perception in a scientific approach, thinking, and 2013 Curriculum in the field; and observation sheet about teacher's stimulus for facilitating student's thinking. Method and sources triangulation used in this research. The result were teachers already have a good understanding about a scientific approach, and this research recommends problem posing, numerical investigation, and open-ended task as teacher stimulus in developing students' thinking ability in mathematics learning in Junior High School.

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