Welcome at the website of Development Institute of Pendidikan Matematika Realistik Indonesia (IP-PMRI). The main mission of the IP-PMRI is to improve the quality of mathematics education in Indonesia by implementing an innovation approach in mathematics education called Realistic Mathematics Education (RME). RME is a instructional theory in mathematics education which has been evolved since 1970 in the Netherlands.  Its Indonesia version is called PMRI.

IP-PMRI is founded in order to disseminate PMRI to all over  Indonesia through implementation at the LPTKs as well as schools. Each LPTK has network with a number of primary schools. Since 2001, various activities on PMRI have been conducted such as workshops, seminars, book development, teaching practice, and theses development either locally, nationally or internationally.

ICSEI 2007
Thursday, 4 January, 2007, Portoroz , Slovenia
Sustainable change in the primary classroom
- The case of improving mathematics education in Indonesian primary school -
Zulkardi (UNSRI, Palembang , Indonesia ), Kees Hoogland (APS, Utrecht , the Netherlands )

Audience: 8 participants (2 Egyptian, 1 Canadian , 1 Slovenian, 3 Dutch, 2 Indonesian)
Room: 11/Adria 2, Time: 11.00 –12.30

Activities

Recommendations:

•  Try to make connections or collaborate with stakeholders horizontally. This means as much as possible with local stakeholders, such as local associations, local authority , local businesses and industries.

•  Diversify the donors, try to get funding from other sources such as Tobacco Tax, Garuda, industries, tourism, publishers, mass media and so on.

•  Involve the parents and their organizations

•  Make a “curriculum standard” about PMRI that can be represented in books, lesson materials, teaching materials, and assessment materials.

•  It is important to guide the movement and guard the concept of PMRI. Suggestions for this issue are:

•  Develop the principles of PMRI in simple and easy to understand sentences.

•  Use the website to display the principles so the website visitors can use them as the standard. Other persons can be informed that PMRI's principles are available on the web. Other websites can link to these principles pages if they have anything to do with PMRI.

•  Use ideas from distance learning experiences (Brasil for instance). For example education television or (professional) video CD of PMRI contents and approach either for students in the classroom or for professional development of teachers.

•  P4MRI in each LPTK has to be a real and functioning institute as the PMRI resource center to teachers in that province. It must be a place where they can go for help and support.

Research about PMRI is an important activity for teacher educators future teachers and teachers.