Hawgent

Understanding the concept is one aspect that is needed and must be owned by students in learning mathematics. This research aims to make learning media assisted by hawgent dynamic mathematics software on understanding the absolute value in grade 10 Senior high school to help teachers explain the concepts and assist students in finding and understanding the basic concepts of absolute value topic. The development model used in this research is ADDIE development model. ADDIE is an abridgment of Analyze, Design, Develop and Evaluation.

In traditional teaching, many teachers often ignore the process of students' knowledge exploration, devote themselves to instilling knowledge to students in a short time, and then adopt the sea of questions tactics. Such teaching is only limited to the stage of telling students what "variance" is and how to use it, and ignores the birth process and meaning of "variance". The purpose of this research is to see the differences in classes that use dynamic mathematics software and traditional classes. The method in this research is descriptive qualitative.