Proceedings of the University of Muhammadiyah Malang's 1st International Conference of Mathematics Education (INCOMED 2017)

Analysis of Creative Thinking Ability of Primary School Department Student on Proposing Mathematics Problem

Authors
Nyamik Rahayu Sesanti, Retno Marsitin
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Nyamik Rahayu Sesanti
Available Online January 2018.
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10.2991/incomed-17.2018.11How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Mathematical creative thinking, Primary school education department students
Abstract

Mathematical creative thinking ability is important thing to be considered for prospective educators. Students will develop their Mathematical creative thinking if the teacher having understanding about mathematical creative thinking. Besides teacher should use suitable strategy and approach when they teach their students. Primary school education department students should be provided with mathematical critical thinking to raise their creativity and innovation in teaching learning process. The aim of this research is to describe the creativity of primary school education department students in proposing mathematical problem. This research used descriptive qualitative method since the researcher wanted to explore mathematical creative thinking of primary school department students in proposing mathematical problem. In analyzing data, the researcher identified mathematical questions made by primary school education department students using fluency, flexibility and novelty criteria. The findings showed that 76% students got their fluency, 68% students belongs to flexibility criteria and for novelty criteria only obtained by 15% students. It can be concluded that primary school education department student in creative level.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the University of Muhammadiyah Malang's 1st International Conference of Mathematics Education (INCOMED 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2018
ISBN
10.2991/incomed-17.2018.11
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/incomed-17.2018.11How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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