Novriana Sumarti
At present, the role of mathematics modeling and simulation in the economy and industry is prominent and unavoidable. Its role as a tool to understand the issues that occur factually, to predict the phenomena that occur in the future, to optimize the work done, to control the system to get the desired conditions, and to help to make things better, more Fast, safer and cheaper. The scope of the implementation of community service was followed by teachers and prospective teachers around the postgraduate of Mathematics UNS. This activity is divided into 2 parts; (1) The first and second seminars to convey the importance of mathematical and teaching modeling, as well as Best Practices that have been carried out in several places, (2) Mathematics modeling workshops in solving problems that occur around Surakarta City and other daily problems.
Application of Writing, Implementation of Social Concern Activities in the form of education / counseling / mentoring
The Mathematics Education System in the Surakarta area is not oriented to solving real world problems. Most mathematical subjects are taught without connecting it with real-world problems. The difficulty in connecting the subject to real-world problems is not because of ignorance of the importance of mathematics, but more due to the fact that most teachers do not have enough knowledge, skills, access and experience in using topics in the course of learning to solve real world problems