Peningkatan Motivasi dan Prestasi Belajar Matematika melalui Pembelajaran Menggunakan Strategi Pemecahan Masalah dengan Media Komik

This study aimed to describe the process of learning used problem-solving strategies with Media Comic which increase motivation and achievement of students in grade VII C SMP N 3 Pleret Bantul Yogyakarta academic year 2013/2014. This type of research is the Classroom Action Research. Data was collected using questionnaire and test description. Types of experiments performed in this study is unused test with respondent around 28 students with test instruments that used to include the validity and reliability test. The results showed that there was an increase in the average value of 60.97 learning motivation into 80.07 after the action. While the percentage of students' abilities to pass the KKM with 69 score also increased that the first cycle of 71.43% increased to 78.57% in the second cycle. So the problem-solving strategies with Media Comic is improving the motivation and learning achievement of students