Analysis of Students’ Error in Understanding the Mathematical Problems

DOI

10.2991/icm2e-18.2018.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mathematical representation ability, Understanding Mathematical Problems

Abstract

Lack of students’ mathematical abilities can cause difficulties in solving mathematical problems. The difficulties can be seen from mistakes in mathematical representation on students’ answers. This study interested in analyzing error in understanding the mathematical problems and find out the causes of such errors. To answer that, we conducted this research (field research) with 25 students in VIII4 class in MTsN Sunggayang in the form of descriptive research. Students are given a designed test to measure their understanding about the problems. Interviews were conducted to the students who did mistakes in answering mathematical problems. The data were analyzed with data tabulation procedures, analysis of the test results, reducing the data, presenting data and draw conclusions. In general, Most of students understand the given problems but they did not write the information on the problems completely that showed their mathematical communication ability were low.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fridgo Tasman
AU  - Isra Nurmai Yenti
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Analysis of Students’ Error in Understanding the Mathematical Problems
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mathematics and Mathematics Education 2018 (ICM2E 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 62
EP  - 65
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icm2e-18.2018.16
DO  - 10.2991/icm2e-18.2018.16
ID  - Tasman2018/12
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