Development of STEAM program Math centered for Middle School Students

Abstract

Now as a society of knowledge and information , it is required the develoment of autonomous and creative human resources that can create new intellectual value using the knowledge and information given by rather than simply memorizing the knowledge. In terms of development of creativity, mathematics is a very important subject. However, many students do not feel the need and the value of mathematics and they just study without any interests. So looking at the buzzword of these days, STEAM . STEAM is the fusion of five fields of studies which are science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics. In the early advanced study it can be seen that using STEAM , education has a positive impact on attitudes and interests . And computer programming enhances students' algorithmic thinking in mathematics. Therefore, this research wants to develop STEAM program centered with mathematics using scratch to improve the mathematical interests of students.