Mathematic teaching aids training for teachers of Elementary, Junior High and High Schools was held on Saturday, November 23rd, 2013. This training started at 08.00, in Pudak Scientific’s Science Laboratory Room in Gedebage by inviting Dr. Stanley P. Dewanto, M.Pd as the speaker. He is a mathematics professor of FMIPA UNPAD, who is also teaching for UNPAS and UPI.

Participants of this training were 15 teachers of Elementary, Junior High and High Schools from various regions of Indonesia, including Depok, Bogor, Cirebon, Bekasi, Serang and Jakarta. Dr. Stanley explained about the important of making a good teaching plan to create a fun mathematic learning process for students. Inquiry-based learning is an alternative learning process that is expected to make the teaching material could be better understood by students. The opinion that mathematic is boring is expected to disappear from the student’s mind.

“A fun mathematic learning process should be a learning process that students will enjoy, feel challenged and forced to think,” Dr. Stanley explained in front of the training participants. The participants were enthusiastic with his explanations. Dr. Stanley was not only explaining materials, he also showed same techniques useful to attract students’ attention in learning mathematic.

After the session with Dr Stanley, participants were invited to try various mathematic teaching aids that can be used in learning mathematic concepts, that may change teachers’, as well as students’, paradigm about mathematic, that mathematic is not merely memorizing formulas.