Pengetahuan Mahasiswa Pendidikan Guru Sekolah Dasar dalam Merepresentasikan Operasi Pecahan dengan Model Persegi Panjang

Zetra Hainul Putra (Pendidikan Guru Sekolah Dasar, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Riau)

Jurnal Elemen
Vol 2, No 1 (2016): January

This study aims to investigate pre-service elementary teachers’ knowledge on representing fraction operations by rectangle models. The subjects of this study are 64 pre-service elementary teachers from elementary school techer training study program, faculty of teacher training and education, University of Riau. The research method used is quantitative descriptive by giving a test related to the representations of fraction operations by rectangle models. The result shows that 82,81% pre-service elementary teachers were success representing addition of fractions, and 67,19% of them for subtraction of fractions. Meanwhile, 44,53% pre-service elementary teachers were success representing multiplication of fractions and 24,22% of them for divison of fractions. Then, they were still get difficulty in representing multiplication and division of fractions using rectangle models than addition and subtraction of fractions.