Abstract :
All elements of the Indonesian people are entitled to a proper education without any
exception for children with special needs. One classification of children with special needs
is children who have mild tunagrahita or include in a category of children with special needs
who are able to learn. It can be said like that because they are still be able to learn and
receive academic learning such as Science, Language and Mathematic.
One basic material in learning Mathematic.which cannot be separated from daily life is
calculating objects. To facilitate teachers in delivering material to the mild tunagrahita
students, teacher can use instructional media when learning process is running. Media that
can be used to easiness the teacher in delivering message to the students is using pop-up
book. The purpose of this study is to describe the effect of pop-up book as a media for mild
tunagrahita students of Study and Assistance Center of ABK in Muhammadiyah Gresik
University in the ability of calculating objects.
The type of study that the researcher used is descriptive quantitative research with pure
experimental research method type "Posttest Only Control Design". The subject are mild
tunagrahita students from Study and Assistance Center of ABK in Muhammadiyah Gresik
University with the total of students is 10 students which are divided into experimental
group (Group A) whom they are treated by using pop-up book as media and control group
(Group B) which use conventional method in learning process. The data is collected by
using documentation and tests.
The results of T-Test that is using SPSS 16.0 program shows sig value = 0,001 < ?
=0,05 then H1 is accepted, it means the ability to calculate objects of mild tunagrahita
students who are using pop-up book is better that those who used conventional method. It
can be concluded that there is an effect in the use of pop-up book as media to mild
tunagrahita students? ability in counting objects in the Center for Study and Assistance
Center of ABK in Muhammadiyah Gresik University.