Studying Mathematics with Listening to The Music, Is It Right?

(Small research of soul symptom a student Junior High School in Study mathematics problem)

In this article, I will try to observe the soul symptom of studying mathematics with listening to the music. Here I have respondent, her name is Siti Fatimah and she is third grade in SMP N (Junior High School) 1 Jetis Yogyakarta. She lives in Ngentak Timbulharjo Sewon Bantul.
Based on, her habitual activity if studying something. I will let Siti to turn on her radio and she can do the question while listening to the music. This observation does at Monday, 5 January 2008 in correspondence’s home at 13.00 pm. The mechanism of this observation is: the respondent will be given one mathematics problem. The observer let her to open the note. I will observe the soul symptom from the respondent when she solve the question.

The mathematics question that given to the respondent:
Eko buy 3 books and 2 pencils. He must pay Rp6.300,00. While Andy buy 1 book and 3 pencils, he must pay Rp4.200,00. How much money does mother pay, if she buys 1 book and 1 pencil?
The answer:
For example : the price of the book is x
The price of the pencil is y
The first equation : 3x + 2y = 6300
The second equation : x + 3y = 4200
Use the elimination and substitution method :
3x + 2y = 6300
x + 3y = 4200 second equation we multiply with 3

3x + 2y = 6300
3x + 9y = 12600
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-7y = - 6300
y = 900

substitute y = 900 to the first equation :
3x + 2y = 6300
3x + 1800 = 6300
3x = 4500
x = 1500

Mother buy 1 book and 1 pencil, she must pay : 1500 + 900 = 2400 rupiah.
Here is the result of the observation :
• She could finish the question for 15 minutes 30 second
• She played the pencil during read the question
• She said that her teacher ever taught about the matter but she forgot it, so she must read the note before answer it.
• She sang when her favorites song played on the radio
• She changed the frequency of the radio when she doesn’t like the song.


The analyze of the result in observation :
She can do the question but her concentration is disturbed with the radio, it was proven with she did the question in 15 minutes 30 second. It is a long time to answer 1 easy question. She is more concentrate listening to the radio because the radio played her favorite band. So it’s mean that studying with listening to the music is not a good way because our concentration will divided to the question and the music.
Actually, correspondent doesn’t like mathematics lesson. But she understand if do linear equation problem because she ask her friend to teach her. She said that when his teacher while teaching in front of class, she and her friend often listening music with hand phone. She was bored because her teacher just always talked in front of class and seldom teaches with an innovative method. So it is one of our educational system problems especially in mathematics teaching learning method, we must change for the teacher centered to the student centered system. It’s for build creativity aspect from the student and the teacher.

BY : NURUL NOVIANI
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Pendidikan Matematika NR D “07
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