Unnes Journal of Mathematics Education
Vol 7 No 3 (2018): Unnes Journal of Mathematics Education

Students’ mathematical creative thinking ability in creative problem solving learning based on self-esteem

Wicahyono, Dangu Prastiyo (Unknown)
Asikin, Mohammad (Unknown)
Suhito, Suhito (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Nov 2018

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the improvement of students’ mathematical creative thinking ability and to describe students’ mathematical creative thinking ability based on self-esteem. The method used in this study was mixed methods. The population in this study were seventh grade students in one of the junior high school in Semarang City. Through simple random sampling, the reseachers chose class VII A as an experimental class. Futhermore, 6 study subjects were interviewed consisted, covering 3 subjects from high self-esteem level and 3 subjects from low self-esteem level. The results of this study were: (1) student’s mathematical creative thinking ability increased with a gain index of 0,4 and was included in medium level; (2) students with the high self-esteem level were categorized in level 4 of TBKM; and (3) students with the low self-esteem level were grouped in level 0 TBKM.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ujme

Publisher

Subject

Mathematics

Description

Unnes Journal of Mathematics Education (UJME) publishes research issues on mathematics education. The UJME processes manuscripts resulted from a research in mathematics education scope, which includes, but is not limited to the topics of didactic development research (DDR), research and development ...