Journal on Mathematics Education (JME)
Vol 4, No 1 (2013)

Improving of Junior High School Visual Thinking Representation Ability in Mathematical Problem Solving by CTL

Edy Surya (State University of Medan, Medan)
Jozua Sabandar (Indonesia University of Education, Bandung)
Yaya S. Kusumah (Indonesia University of Education, Bandung)
Darhim Darhim (Indonesia University of Education, Bandung)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Feb 2014

Abstract

The students' difficulty which was found is in the problem of understanding, drawing diagrams, reading the charts correctly, conceptual formal mathematical understanding, and mathematical problem-solving. The appropriate problem representation is the basic way in order to understand the problem itself and make a plan to solve it. This research was the experimental classroom design with a pretest-posttest control in order to increase the representation of visual thinking ability on mathematical problem-solving approach with contextual learning. The research instrument was a test, observation, and interviews. Contextual approach increases of mathematical representations ability increases in students with high initial category, medium, and low compared to conventional approaches.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jme

Publisher

Subject

Education Mathematics

Description

Journal on Mathematics Education (IndoMS-JME) is peer-refereed open-access international journal which has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of mathematics education. This journal is founded under collaboration between Indonesian Mathematical Society ...