Validity of Math Comic Design Using Computational Thinking to Stimulate the Special Needs Student’s Critical Thinking Ability

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Danty Rahmasantika, Suparman, Mohamed Nor Azhari Azman, Tedy Machmud, Misran Rahman

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Critical thinking is an act reasonable thinking in choosing a problem-solving strategy for proper decision making. If students have high critical thinking skills, students can solve math issues easily. Comics can be used as form of variation in the provision of interactive, fun, and reinforcing student critical thinking skills. The study aimed to analyze and design Math Comic by Computational Thinking methods to stimulate students’ critical thinking skills. This type of research is descriptive research method. The research result in several findings. First, teachers need a medium of learning. Second, the special needs student’s critical thinking ability needs to be improved. Third the researcher designs Math Comic consisting of covers, prefaces, tables of contents, usage instructions, basic competence, core competence, achievement indicators, comic story development, and matters of evaluation. Fourth, Math Comic was designed according to computational thinking methods to stimulate students’ critical thinking skills. The results of this study can be used as a guide for mathematics teachers in developing Math comic that make students understand mathematics and have critical thinking skills simultaneously. The contribution of this research is to stimulate critical thinking skills into Math comic. In addition, Math comic is designed according to the computational thinking.

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