Math in Love

Banks and Banks (1995) define multicultural education that "Multicultural education is a field of study and an emerging discipline whose major aim is to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social-class, and cultural groups. One of its important goals is to help all students to acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society and to interact, negotiate, and communicate with peoples from diverse groups in order to create a civic and moral community that works for the common good." The effort of some university in the world especially the member of APEC held a meeting for sharing about the problem of mathematics and the solution that appear in each country. The last meeting hold in Ubon, Thailand. The theme of the last meeting is “Innovation on Problem Solving Based Mathematics Textbook and E-Textbooks”. One of the participant is Mr. Marsigit from Indonesia. He is...

The Scheme of Uncovering The Phenomena of Psychological Aspect of Mathematics Learning I.    Introduction Education is process of  people life to learn anything. Comonly people get education at school. Actualy, people can get education everywhere and everytime. For example, children can count the sum of manggoes that they have. They get this skill not only from family education but also school education.  Teacher give education for students at school. In this case, teacher not only teach about material or teory of certain course but also teach moral attitude. It is done because students need both of them in their life. The students have three differents. They are different gender, different ability, and different character. Teacher find the different of the students at teaching learning process in the class.  The teacher cann’t assume that all of the students are same. Because of it, the teacher must know the psychological of the students. The easy way to l...