Next Gen Choice: Mathematics for Junior High School is especially designed based on the Kurikulum Merdeka to develop students’ critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration skills. As a future-ready textbook, Next Gen Choice uses a simple, clear, and meaningful approach that connects learning to everyday experiences, helping students see Mathematics as a whole and making every learning experience mindful, meaningful, and joyful.

It offers features including:

Learning Objectives: Clearly articulate mathematical competencies, Deep Learning, and future-ready thinking skills.
Keywords: Support precise mathematical language and clear communication, strengthening conceptual understanding.
Concept Map: Develop critical thinking and abstraction by visualizing relationships among mathematical ideas.
Inquiry Question: Foster problem formulation, curiosity, and reasoning.
Examples: Model employing mathematics through conceptual and procedural reasoning in contextualized situations.
Exercises: Provide formative practice to build characters, perseverance, and accuracy, while reinforcing mathematical reasoning.
HOTS (Higher-Order Thinking Skills): Strengthen analysis, evaluation, and creative problem-solving, aligned with developmental cognitive and metacognitive skills.
Activity: Promote collaboration and communication through discussion, simulation, group work, and shared problem-solving.
Knowledge Kernel: Highlight essential conceptual understandings that support transferable numeracy across contexts.
Chapter Summary: Support reflection and sense-making, helping students consolidate learning and recognize patterns.
End-of-Chapter Assessment: Assess students’ ability to formulate, employ, and interpret mathematics through multiple-choice, multiple-response, and essay questions, completed individually or collaboratively.
Collaborative Project: Integrate citizenship, creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication through authentic, cross-disciplinary problem contexts reflecting real-world numeracy demands and to promote student agency.
Deep Learning Approach: Represented through Mindful Learning, Meaningful Learning, and Joyful Learning, supporting the learning cycle of understanding, applying, and reflecting.
Reflection: Strengthen metacognition, ethical reasoning, and self-direction, enabling students to evaluate strategies, improve decision-making, and set meaningful learning goals.