Proceedings of the 5th SEA-DR (South East Asia Development Research) International Conference 2017 (SEADRIC 2017)

Misconceptions of the Students with High Mathematical Creative Thinking Level in Solving the Geometric Shapes Problems

Authors
Hajjah Rafiah, Aminah Ekawati
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Hajjah Rafiah
Available Online May 2017.
DOI
10.2991/seadric-17.2017.33How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Misconception, Mathematical Creative Thinking, Geometric Shapes Problems
Abstract

Students are frequently wrong in understanding a certain concept or material in learning mathematics or termed as misconceptions. Misconceptions do not occur only at students with low mathematics skills or low levels of mathematical creative thinking, but also for students with high mathematical creative thinking. Therefore, it is important to describe the misconception of students' high mathematical creative thinking in solving the problems, especially geometric shapes problems because that is often overlooked. This research employed a qualitative approach and the data were presented descriptively. The study was conducted in SDI Surya Buana Malang in academic year 2015/2016. Four students from Class VI who fulfilled high mathematical creative thinking level were selected as the research subjects. Students with high mathematical creative thinking is students who have the problem solving skills in fluency, flexibility, and originality. The findings showed that the students with high mathematical creative thinking level had misconceptions in determining of the size of the parallelogram, determining of the perimeter of the combined shapes, and understanding the concept of square and rhombus.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th SEA-DR (South East Asia Development Research) International Conference 2017 (SEADRIC 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
May 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-342-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/seadric-17.2017.33How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, 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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