Fun Learning Method in Effecting the Students’ Interest in Learning Mathematics

This study is based on the low interest of students in learning mathematics. The phenomenon was indicated by the activities of students who are often outside the classroom during mathematics learning, the students do not ask when there is confusing material, the students do not complete the task given, and some students are sleepy during the learning process. These conditions indicated a low level of learning interest. At the same time, interest is crucial in learning mathematics because it affects students' learning achievement. Regarding the condition, the teacher's role is to increase the student's learning interest by applying appropriate methods. One of the learning methods that is assumed to be able to attract students' learning interest is the fun learning method. The fun learning method in this study was applied through classroom action research with two learning cycles. This study aims to know the effect of fun learning method son students'interest in
mathematics. This study was conducted at VII.7 grade of SMP
Negeri 1 Pinrang, South Sulawesi. The research instrument
used was a questionnaire and an observation sheet. The data was
collected through a questionnaire and observation, then the
data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics.
Indicators of increased interest obtained from questionnaires
show an increase in the average percentage of student interest
in learning from the moderate category of 2.88 to the good category of 4.08, which meets the average indicator of students' interest in learning mathematics of 3.50 in the
good category. In contrast, other indicators are shown through
the results of observations of student activity, namely an
increase in the percentage of student activity from 44.2% to
75.4%, which met the success indicator of 75% The result
showed that the fun learning method could increase the student's interest in mathematics.