Enhancing Students' Creative Thinking Skills in Mathematics Using The Missouri Mathematics Project Based on Local Wisdom

Abstract

The development of creative thinking skills is one of the government's focuses in learning mathematics. Creative thinking is also one aspect of the Profil Pelajar Pancasila. Creative values can be integrated with the value of global diversity through local wisdom-based learning. This study aims to see the improvement of students' creative thinking skills through Missouri Mathematics Project learning based on local wisdom, especially through the Batik Jombangan project. The instruments used were observation sheet, Batik Jombangan project, questionnaire, and tests (pretest and posttest). The research subjects were SMPN 1 Tembelang students as many as 32 students. The results of the pretest and posttest T test show that the resulting significance value of 0.000 is smaller than the error rate used which is 0.05. The questionnaire results also show that students can express according to their creativity, can answer differently with friends through the open ended Batik Jombangan project, feel challenged, and are not bored when working on local wisdom-based projects. The resulting conclusion is that there is an increase in students' creative thinking skills in mathematics learning geometry transformations implemented through MMP learning based on local wisdom.