Analysis of Students Difficulties in Solving Math Words Problems

DOI

10.2991/978-2-38476-204-0_31How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Education; Case Study; Mathematic; Words Problem

Abstract

In the education of Indonesia, one of the subjects that students learned from elementary school to senior high school was mathematics. One of the assumptions about this subject was that it was scary. This assumption was inseparable from students’ difficulty in solving the math problems they encounter. A form of a question considered difficult by students was a word problem. This question was formed from a series of sentences containing instructions and instructions where students were required to solve the problem based on the instructions and instructions in the question. Mathematicians said if students can solve every word problem they encounter, their mathematical ability would increase significantly. This study aimed to reveal students’ difficulties in solving math word problems. The research design used in this research was a qualitative research design with the type of case study research. This research was conducted in the even semester at one of the elementary schools in the city of Bandung, i.e. Elementary School 195 of Isola in the 2021/2022 academic year. Students who became respondents to this study were 32 students. Based on the results of the study, the researchers found that students had difficulty changing the language of the questions into mathematical language, understanding mathematical concepts in word problems, and representing story questions in mathematical representations.

Copyright

© 2023 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Sartono Sartono
AU  - Syafri Ahmad
AU  - Masniladevi Masniladevi
AU  - Melva Zainil
AU  - Yullys Helsa
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/03/25
TI  - Analysis of Students Difficulties in Solving Math Words Problems
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Sciences for Humanity in Society 5.0 Era (ICOMSH 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 367
EP  - 377
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-204-0_31
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-204-0_31
ID  - Sartono2024
ER  -