Implementation of Active Induction Method by Integration of Pattern to Improve 2nd Year Primary Student Teachers' Competencies in Basic Algebraic Expression

Teaching methodology and teaching methods are key components that teacher uses to help students in doing activities to acquire knowledge and skills for solving problems in daily life. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using the active inductive method by integration of patterns to improve primary student teachers' ability to study basic algebraic expressions. To achieve the objective, the quantitative method was employed to compare the result of the experiment group (using an active induction method by integration of pattern) and control group (using the traditional method). The data were collected from a pre-test, and a post-test, which focused on the concept of algebraic expression and writing algebraic expression. Two different classes of second-year primary student teachers in cohort 3 were selected for this study. In total, there are 44 student teachers were taken from two classes one class consisted of 24 student teachers, and another class consisted of 20 student teachers. The sample was selected based on the lecturer's assessment result, who taught the topic of Further mathematics related to algebraic expression. For data analysis, the researchers used SPSS and Microsoft Excel to analyze independent sample t-tests by doing Bootstrap samples from 20 samples to 100 samples. Based on the results of the data analysis indicated that the experiment group obtained $(M=6.62, SD=0.31)$ while the control group obtained $(M=5.33, SD=0.43)$ and $t(100)=1.29$ with $df=198$ $(p<.05)$. It means that applying active inductive method improved student teachers's basic knowledge of algebraic expression. Thus, the active inductive method by integration of patterns is more effective than the traditional teaching method. This study encourages all teachers to investigate more about the active inductive method and apply it in teaching that can help students acquire knowledge.