STAD PROBLEM SOLVING MINAT DAN PEMAHAMAN KONSEP

This experiment research is aimed at obtaining information related to the possibility that the students’ understanding the concept of Mathematics is caused by cooperative learning model of type Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) and interent of study. Research has been implemented using experimental variables after all put into 2 x 2 factorial design research. In this research, the students have been chosen as a unit of analysis 60 samples selected. The result of analysis finds out that: 1) the students’ understanding the concept of Mathematics is caused by cooperative learning model of type Student Team Achievement Division, 2) influence of learning interest against the students’ understanding the concept of Mathematics, and 3) the influence of interaction of the learning model cooperative type of Student Team Achievement Division and learning interest against the students’ understanding the concept of Mathematics. Therefore, cooperative learning model of type Student Team Achievement Division and discipline of study should be put into the account of development in managing human resources in teaching activities in the classroom, especially of the Mathematics subject. However other variables are necessary to be taken into account properly. Keywords: experiment, cooperative learning, interest, and students’ understanding the concept of Mathematics