A PISA-based Student Worksheet for Better
Understanding of Mathematical Concept
Sutama
1
, Harun Joko Prayitno
2
, Sofyan Anif
3
, Nuqthy Faiziyah
4
, Meggy Novitasari
5
,
Muhammad Wildan Fadhilah
6
sutama@ums.ac.id
1
, harun.prayitno
2
, sofyan.anif@ums.ac.id
3
, nuqthy.faiziyah@ums.ac.id
4
,
a410130043@student.ums.ac.id
5
, a410150171@student.ums.ac.id
6
Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta
1,2,3,4,5,6
Surakarta, Indonesia
Abstract. A student worksheet is one of the teaching materials to improve student
understanding in the classroom. However, many teachers could not effectively arrange
and utilize it so that the learning objectives stated might not be reached. This study aims
to generate a PISA-based student worksheet on valid and practical content and expose the
effect on the ability to understand students' mathematical concepts. Using development
research of a preliminary research, development phase, and assessment, the worksheet is
composed. Besides, a test is used to determine the effectiveness of worksheets and another
test is also to find out the effect of worksheets that have been made on the ability to
understand mathematical concepts. As a result, this study has produced a valid and
practical PISA-based student worksheet. The thing that is distinctive of this worksheet is
that the question contains Sharing Task and Jumping Task. The result also shows that the
worksheet could improve student understanding of a mathematical concept.
Keywords: mathematical concept, PISA, student worksheet, sharing task, jumping task.
1 Introduction
Understanding concepts is one of the mathematical skills or skills that is expected to be
achieved in learning mathematics that is by showing understanding mathematical concepts
learned, explaining the interrelationships between concepts and apply concepts or algorithms in
a flexible, accurate, efficient and precise manner solution to a problem. Mathematical
understanding will be meaningful if learning mathematics is directed at developing the ability
of inter mathematical connections ideas, understanding how mathematical ideas are related to
one another so that a comprehensive understanding is built up, and deep mathematics is used
context outside of mathematics.
The use of student worksheets is expected to be able to change the conditions of learning
from what the teacher usually has to determine "what is learned" to "how to provide and enrich
student learning experiences". Student learning experiences can be obtained through a series of
activities to explore the environment through active interaction with friends, the environment,
and other resource persons. Presentation of mathematics learning by using worksheet demands
active participation from students because student worksheets is a form of teacher's effort to
guide students in a structured manner, through activities that can provide an attraction to
students to study mathematics. Through learning with the worksheet, the effectiveness of the
Profunedu 2019, August 07, Surakarta, Indonesia
Copyright © 2019 EAI
DOI 10.4108/eai.7-8-2019.2288432