THE ADVANTAGES OF PSYCHOLOGY IN MATHEMATICS TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS

What is in the student’s mind if they hear “mathematics?” Are they like studying mathematics? Or they dislike studying mathematics? Their feeling to mathematics can looked from their activity in learning mathematics. If they are dilligent to study mathematics, like doing exercises, ask when they have difficulties, have spirit when study mathematics, then they like studying mathematics. On the other hand, if the student don’t have spirit to study mathematics, lazy to do exercises, etc, then they have difficulty to study mathematics.
The teacher have to know what happen in his/ her student. He/ she needs to give motivation to the students. The teacher have to help the students who have the difficulty. The teacher needs to communicate and keep interaction with the student in order the teacher can help the students. To know the problem faced the student, the teacher need to study pscychology. The teacher can analize the problem faced student by the student attitude. For the example, there is student who sleepy when mathematics teaching learning. The teacher don’t give punishment directly to student. The teacher can ask why the student sleepy. May be the student had to help the parents until night, or the other reason. The other example, the student are lazy to study mathematics. The teacher have to know why they are lazy. Because the method that used boring, the teacher give many tasks, the problem in their family, etc. The teacher needs to discuss and keep interaction among them in order they can share and find the solution.
The psychology gives many advantages to the teacher. The teacher can know the condition of the student. The student can share what the problem faced them. The teacher can help them. If the interaction among the teacher and the student kept well, then the mathematics teaching learning process will done well. The teacher will enjoy teaching mathematics and the student also enjoy study mathematics.