The Influence of Snake-Ladder Game toward Early Childhood Children’s Mathematics Skills

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Low learning media and conventional method implementations made less maximum learning to improve children’s mathematics skills. This research aims to analyze the cooperative learning model with snake-ladder game media toward early childhood children's mathematics skills. The applied method was the experimental method with a pretest-posttest group control design. The population consisted of 135 children aged 5-6 years old and by the applying purposive sampling 30 Children were chosen as samples. This research used mathematics skill observation with a 1-4 Likert scale to collect the data. By employing t-test is used the effect of the snake and ladder game on math skills was analyzed. The results showed that there was a sig value of 0.00 < 0.05, which means that there was a difference in the increase of the math abilities of children aged 5-6 years by implementing snake and ladder media. The results showed that the cooperative learning model assisted by the snake-ladder game was effective to improve learners’ mathematics skill outcomes. It proved that a cooperative learning method assisted by a snake-ladder game could improve the mathematics skills of learners aged 5-6 years old.