Students' Difficulties in Solving Mathematical Problems
Journal Title: International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the ability and students' difficulties in solving mathematical problems. This study is a qualitative research with the number of participants - 32 students consisting of 16 male students and 16 female students with an age range of 12-13 years. Data were collected by observation, interviews, and tests of social arithmetic problems. The results showed that junior high school students have low ability in solving mathematical problems. The low ability of students' mathematical problem solving is caused by several factors, namely (1) students can not understand the keyword of social arithmetic problem; (2) students can not develop problem solving strategy based on problem in question; (3) students easily give up in the face of every difficulty and error; (4) students do not like to read long and unclear questions in reading questions; (5) students are not careful in the calculation process; (6) the student is wrong in taking and determining the concept or strategy of completion; and (7) the students did not verify either in terms of concepts, strategies, calculations, and answers. In subsequent research, our objective is to focus more on student activities in solving mathematical problems.
Authors and Affiliations
SAMSUL HADI, TATANG HERMAN, AAN HASANAH
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