How to Uncover Pedagogic Psychological Phenomena of Mathematics Education by Applying Quantitative Method

In learning mathematics, a student would show their psychological symptom as the effect of process that was happening in their self. If student show positive psychological symptom, means the learning process that was happening in their self also good, begitu pula sebaliknya. Of course psychological symptom of a person is different with other. Psychological symptom that appear are really important to be based for the teacher to developing active, effective, and creative teaching method. There is some method that can be used to uncover pedagogic of psychological phenomena of mathematics education, and is quantitative method.

Quantitative methods are research techniques that are used to gather quantitative data-information dealing with numbers and anything that is measurable. Statistics, tables and graphs, are often used to present the results of these methods. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_methods#Quantitative_methods). Basic of using qualitative method are uncertainly of the future and randomly of every phenomena. To get accurately result, we can utilizing some indicator to handle both of these matters.

Quantitative method can be used in case of correlation between difficulties learning faced by mathematics learner and their achievement in learning mathematics. To researching this case, we have to search data of the research from respondents (mathematics learners). Exactly, indicators of this matter related with relating factors, and then poured it in to scoring question in an inquiry given to respondents. Statistic data inquiry result had to classified and analised to get the conclution. Finally, we can conclude that there is a correlation between difficulties learning faced by mathematics learner and their achievement in learning mathematics. And there are some factors that we can seen from the indicator causing this matter, like motivation, condition of environment, and other factor were really affected. So the teacher could be able to give effective, creative, and innovative learning method by study uncovered pedagogical phenomena of mathematics education.

Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_methods#Quantitative_methods