The Application of Scientific Plus Learning to Improve Mathematics Learning Achievement of Junior High School Students Grade VII

Learning will be meaningful if it links the students real-life experiences with mathematical ideas or concepts in learning process through contextual issues. One of the meaningful mathematics and mathematical oriented learning in daily life experiences is scientific plus learning. The purpose of this research was to describe the students’ spiritual attitude and social competence, learning skills, and the improvement of students’ Mathematics achievement on the material “Numbers” in class VII.B of Junior High School of Satria Kendari through a scientific plus approach. This research was classroom action research and the subject of this research consisted of 34 students of class VII.B of Junior High School of Satria Kendari. The results showed that the students’ spiritual attitude were in the good category, social attitudes were in the good category, learning skills was predicated B+, Mathematics achievement was completed in the cycle IV with the average score was 79.96 and the percentage of completeness was 81.81% predicated A, and the learning management that was applied through a scientific plus approach by the teacher achieved 86% in the fourth cycle.