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Optimizing Critical Thinking Skills of Fourth Grade Students Through Inquiry-Based Learning: Elementary School Mathematics Syaidi, Azzumardin Murti, Rahayu Condro Critical thinking is an important aspect of education that encompasses cognitive, metacognitive, and ethical dimensions. This study aims to examine the impact of inquiry-based learning on students' critical thinking skills in fourth-grade mathematics at elementary school. This research employs a quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental design. This research involves fourth-grade students from Lempuyangwangi Public Elementary School, class A as the experimental group and Class B as the control group. The results of the Paired sample t-test for critical thinking skills in Table 4 between the pretest and posttest of the control class are 8.744 > 1.697 (t table N=30), and for the experimental class, it is 29.078 > 1.699 (t table N=29). In each class, the significance value is 0.001. When compared to the threshold value that must be met for a significance level of 0.05, the calculated significance being less than 0.05 indicates that there is a positive effect. The findings indicate a positive and significant influence of inquiry-based learning on enhancing students' critical thinking skills in mathematics. These results suggest that educators need to consider integrating inquiry-based learning into their teaching strategies to enhance the quality of education.         Keywords: critical thinking, inquiry-based learning, mathematic.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23960/jpmipa/v25i2.pp752-764 FKIP Universitas Lampung 2024-10-17 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article application/pdf https://jpmipa.fkip.unila.ac.id/index.php/jpmipa/article/view/81 Jurnal Pendidikan MIPA; Vol 25, No 2 (2024): Jurnal Pendidikan MIPA; 752-764 2685-5488 1411-2531 eng https://jpmipa.fkip.unila.ac.id/index.php/jpmipa/article/view/81/60 Copyright (c) 2024 Azzumardin Syaidi, Rahayu Condro Murti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0