Development of Math Camp Activities to Enhance Learners’ key Competency for Junior High School

Abstract

This research aimed to create a math camp activity that enhances learners’ key competencies and to study learners' key competencies after participating in a math camp activity that enhances learners’ key competencies. Participants were 80 junior high school students from PhuKhiao school, Chaiyaphum province. The research instruments were math camp activities that enhanced learners’ key competencies. They consisted of 5 activities, which were the Cup challenge base activity, the half heart base activity, the mystery base activity in the cave, the baroque rope base activity, and the answer game base activity. In addition, the evaluations of learners’ key competencies included self-evaluation, teacher evaluation, and peer evaluation. The mean, standard deviation, and percentage were used to analyze the data. The results showed that math camp activity that enhanced students’ key competencies that the researcher created at the most appropriate level. The arithmetic mean was 4.55, the standard deviation was 0.37, and the overall of the learners’ key competency was excellent, which was 78.82 percent. When considering the learners’ key competencies in each area, it was found that all aspects were at an excellent level and the number of learners with the most excellent level was the ability to communicate, followed by the ability to use technology, the ability to think, the ability to use life skills, and the ability to solve problems, respectively.