Understanding of God’s truth is the important thing for students to recognize God’s greatness through His creation. In Christian education, understanding God’s word and apply it in responsible ways are the focus of knowledge and learning (Brummelen, 2002, p.36). It implies that it is a task for Christian teachers to help students to understand the greatness of God and God’s work in His creation that are in order and harmony. The knowledge that can help students to see and understand God’s greatness in His creation is mathematics. Mathematics is very useful and important in most of the human life aspects. The purpose of learning mathematics is to deepen students’ understanding of God’s creation and to use their understanding in order to accomplish God’s calling (Brummelen, 2002, p.203). Through learning mathematics, students can realize that God is faithful and trustworthy in upholding the world by the orderly mathematics pattern, law, and the formation that He put in His creation (Brummelen, 2002, p.203-204). It means that mathematics is the needed knowledge to be learned in order to understand how God’s work in making all His creation orderly.
As Christian perspectives see that mathematics
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Constructivism defines knowledge as constructions of experiences; human not just receives knowledge, but forming, creating, finding, and developing their own knowledge (Mularsih, 2009, p.41). Mularsih said that, based on constructivism, the most important thing of learning process is students’ activeness in constructing knowledge through interaction in learning experiences (2009, p.42). Constructivism opposes passive learning; classroom should be a community of learning engaged in an activity, reflection, and creative experiences (Brummelen, 2002, p.32). Brummelen (2002, p.32) also stated that teacher should facilitate autonomous learning, not just supply the material or