Analysis of Students’ Error in Doing Mathematics Problem on Proportion

Maya Oktaviani

2017

Abstract

Proportion is one of the subjects taught at every level of education. Nevertheless, most students only get memorable formula without knowing its meaning. This can lead to less meaningful learning for students. So, students make mistakes when doing on different questions from the given example. This study aims to find out the mistakes made by students in doing out the questions related to proportion. This research was conducted using a qualitative method. This study was conducted in Islamic Junior High School Al-Azhar 12 Rawamangun, Jakarta. Data were collected from test results, classroom observations, field notes, and interviews. Based on the results of the analysis, the students' error in doing the proportion questions are conceptual, procedural, factual, and careless. Conceptual errors include not understanding the concepts of proportion and cannot distinguish between direct and inverse proportion. Procedural errors include working on the wrong step. Factual errors include cannot identify the solution of the problem. Careless errors include inaccuracy in working on the problem. Based on the result, the students should be involved in the learning process. So, they can understand what they should do to solve proportion problem. Provision of mathematics problem can also be reproduced to improve students' accuracy. This is expected to reduce the students’ error in solving proportion problems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Oktaviani M. (2017). Analysis of Students’ Error in Doing Mathematics Problem on Proportion.In 2nd Asian Education Symposium - Volume 1: AES, ISBN 978-989-758-331-5, pages 172-177. DOI: 10.5220/0007300601720177

in Bibtex Style

@conference{aes17,
author={Maya Oktaviani},
title={Analysis of Students’ Error in Doing Mathematics Problem on Proportion},
booktitle={2nd Asian Education Symposium - Volume 1: AES,},
year={2017},
pages={172-177},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007300601720177},
isbn={978-989-758-331-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - 2nd Asian Education Symposium - Volume 1: AES,
TI - Analysis of Students’ Error in Doing Mathematics Problem on Proportion
SN - 978-989-758-331-5
AU - Oktaviani M.
PY - 2017
SP - 172
EP - 177
DO - 10.5220/0007300601720177