The Effect of Egg-breaking Media on Early Childhood Counting Skill

Pengaruh Media Pecah Telur Terhadap Kemampuan Berhitung Anak Usia Dini

Abstract

Counting is one of the lessons introduced in early childhood before the elementary school era. In group A students, counting learning has been taught to children aged 4-5 years, which is carried out with various activities using appropriate and more exciting media to influence children's interest in learning to count because learning to count is the most important part for children. This study aims to determine: 1) a description of children's counting skills in group A at RA Tri Bhakti Claket; 2) the effects of egg-breaking media on children's numeracy skills at RA Tri Bhakti Claket. This research is a pre-experimental design with a one-group pretest-posttest using a nonprobability sampling technique with purposive sampling. Data collection techniques using observation, questionnaires (pretest-posttest statement items), and documentation. The calculation of data analysis techniques using paired sample t-tests with the help of the SPSS application version 23 for Windows. The findings indicate a significant effect between egg-breaking media and children's numeracy skills at RA Tri Bhakti Claket by the average child's skills, from 30.14 to 46.28. It is also proven from the results of hypothesis testing where the sig. Value < 0.05.