ABSTRACT

Inquiry-based learning is one of learning models that involves students more with the invention of concepts or formulas as its main goal. Inquiry learning can improve the students’ learning outcomes and learning quality. Inquiry learning steps include investigating problems, formulating hypotheses, designing experiments, analyzing data, and concluding. The main problem faced by the students when dealing with inquiry learning is to formulate the hypotheses and find the formulas. The objective of this research is to develop a media called Visual Design Pop Up Book Mathematics to overcome the difficulty of inquiry learning on three-dimensional space material. This research is a media development research which is effective to support the inquiry-based learning. Subjects in this research were 8th grade students of SMPN 2 Wonogiri. Based on the small-scale test, students who were given the media of Visual Design Pop Up Book Mathematics obtained better results. They were more able to guess the possible steps and find the right way or formula in solving the problem than the students who did not use the media.