Learning quadrilateral mathematics with contextual approaches in online learning.

Learning with a contextual approach is carried out by paying attention to students' abilities, learning support tools, situations and conditions and achieving the learning objectives. This study aims to discover how the mathematics learning process with a contextual approach in online learning provides innovation to the phenomena and learning outcomes. The contextual approach will make it easier for students to connect the material presented with their insights about real problems in everyday life. In the COVID-19 pandemic situation, learning is carried out online so that teachers and students must be able to determine and choose an appropriate approach to the mathematics learning material. The methodology in this research is descriptive and qualitative. The subjects of this study were seventh-grade students in a private junior high school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The results showed that the formation of students' learning motivation and activities was due to finding and solving mathematical problems by relating them to situations and conditions of daily life. The process of learning mathematics with a contextual approach makes it easier for students to understand mathematical concepts. The average value of learning outcomes for each first meeting is 72.332%, the second meeting is 86.16%, and the third meeting is 76.16%. Learning mathematics with a contextual approach during the pandemic-19 provides innovations for students and teachers. So that it can increase student learning motivation and student activity because they find problems and solve math problems related to everyday life. Students are asked to be very independent to understand the mathematical content that has been delivered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]