Upgrading Statistical Reasoning Ability Junior High School Students Through Contextual Teaching And Learning

Abstract

This article presents a Contextual Teaching and Learning what it is and what are its characteristics? What is the statistical reasoning ability? Why Contextual Teaching and Learning can develop Traffic reasoning statistically junior secondary students? The ability to reason statistically very important owned by high school students first, because the ability reasoning statistical These students may have competence in terms of : 1) understand the information statistical express or implied on any problems encountered. 2) A good understanding of how to choose, present, reduce, and present data that will be used to address existing problems. 3) understanding and reasoning that both the statistical process as a whole including any calculations involved in the process. 4) understanding to solve the problem of statistically based on existing data, and interpret it in decision-making that can be applied generally. Therefore, to develop the statistical reasoning skills should consider learning approach used for junior secondary students. A model learning approach that is appropriate for school students first one of which is a contextual learning approach(ContextualTeaching and Learning).  This contextual learning approach taking problems in daily life or simulated problems with dialogue, discussion, question and answer, and representation, Contextual teaching activities developed are: a) problem-based learning, b) learning with multi-context, c) self-learning, d) authentic assessment and e) community learning.