Journal on Mathematics Education (JME)
Vol 4, No 2 (2013)

SET A STRUCTURE OF OBJECTS WITH A HELP OF GROUPING TO TEN STRATEGY TO UNDERSTAND THE IDEA OF UNITIZING

Assiti, Saliza Safta (Unknown)
Zulkardi, Zulkardi (Unknown)
Darmawijoyo, Darmawijoyo (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Feb 2014

Abstract

The intention of the present study is to know how the pupils can learn to make a group of ten to understand the idea of unitizing. The pupils were given a contextual problem “Counting the Beads in order to promote their understanding about the idea of unitizing. The process of designing the problem was based on the 5 tenets of Indonesian Realistic Mathematics Education (IRME). The methods of this study was a design research. The researcher designed the Hypothetical Learning Trajectory (HLT) before conducting the lesson in the classroom. The result of this study showed that the pupils learned to make a group of any number then moved to make a group of twenty before using the group of ten as a strategy in finding the amount of the beads. The pupils set a structure of objects with a help of grouping to ten strategy to understand the idea of unitizing.

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