THE DIFFERENCES OF LEARNING BY USING M-APOS AND EXPOSITORY TO IMPROVE STUDENT PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY IN GRADE VII AT SMP-IT KHAIRUL IMAM

This research is an experimental research using a experimental design pretest-posttest with two classes, one class as an experimental class and one as a control class that have been based on the ability of the student. The population of this research is the entire junior class VII at SMP-IT Khairul Imam, and the sample are all students of the class VIIC given learning experiment using M-APOS and all students of the class VIIB given control learning by using Expository. The method of hypothesis testing used is the independent sample t-test. This research aims to determine the differences in improvement of problem solving ability among the student that learn by using M-APOS and student learn by using Expository method. There is the difference of student problem solving ability that learn by M-APOS and learn by expository method at grade VII at SMP-IT Khairul Imam. Then form the research found that students that learn by using M-APOS is better than learn by expository method.