Development of Scientific Approach-Based Teaching Materials to Improve Students' Mathematical Literacy

Abstract

Teaching materials are one of the important elements that affect the success of the teaching materials used in the learning process is the module. Scientific-based teaching materials are teaching materials which contain 5M scientific stages including the Observing, Communicating stages. The facts in the field show that there is a lack of use of scientific based text books, students at school only use the Student Worksheet (LKS) as a learning reference. Mathematical literacy is very important in learning mathematics, because mathematical literacy is an individual’s ability to formulate, apply, and interpret mathematics in various contexts, including the ability to reason mathematically and use procedural concepts, facts, and mathematical tools, to describe, explain and predict a phenomenon or event. The scientific stage in the developed teaching materials are in accordance with the characteristics of mathematical literacy.