Influence of concrete pictorial abstract approach to the improvement of elementary school students spatial sense ability Hafiziani Eka Putri
Program Studi Pendidikan Guru Sekolah Dasar, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Kampus Purwakarta, Jl. Veteran No. 8, Purwakarta 41115, Indonesia
Abstract
The present study is aimed at investigating the influence of CPA approach to the improvement of elementary school students Spatial Sense Ability (SSA) seen from Mathematical Prior Ability (MPA) and as a whole. It is a quasy experiment with control design of pre test and post test in Mathematics in the topic of 3 dimension geometry (3D geometry) to 74 elementary school students in Cikampek, Karawang, West Java. The present study is conducted by using two study groups, group which implements CPA learning approach as the experimental group and group which implements conventional learning as the control group. Both descriptive and inferential data analysis show that the improvement of students SSA is better in students with CPA learning approach rather than students with conventional learning, seen as a whole and in every MPA. Therefore, CPA learning can improve elementary school students SSA.
Keywords: cpa approach, elementary school, spatial sense
