An Analysis of Students’ Error in Learning Mathematical Problem Solving: The Perspective of David Kolb’s Theory

Widodo Winarso, Toheri

2018

Abstract

One of the urgencies of mathematics learning is how much students' ability to solve mathematical problems. But in the process, not a few students who make mistakes in doing math tests. In addition, it turns out that various types of errors also depend on the learning style possessed by students. then the focus of this research is to analyze students' errors in solving mathematical problems based on differences in learning styles according to David Kolb's theory. The study was conducted at the Vocational Middle School in Cirebon-Indonesia. the type of research used is a qualitative research case study approach. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire (Kolb Learning Style Inventory refers to KLSI version 3.1) and tests. Whereas for the analysis of research data using triangulation techniques. The results show that there is a proportional diversity of students' learning styles. each type of learning style has its own unique errors. where the type of diverger is procedural error and misunderstanding. The types of assimilator type errors are procedural and conceptual errors, the type of convergent error type is a procedural error. The type of accommodator type error is a conceptual error. so the type of conceptual is caused by the wrong understanding or deviated from the existing provisions, so this affects the students to make mistakes in the process of math tests. Strategy errors can be experienced when the students are stuck to continue the process of completing a math test. procedural errors occur when the system uses a method that is not systematic in completing the test.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Winarso W. and Toheri. (2018). An Analysis of Students’ Error in Learning Mathematical Problem Solving: The Perspective of David Kolb’s Theory.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 706-713. DOI: 10.5220/0009914907060713

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Widodo Winarso and Toheri},
title={An Analysis of Students’ Error in Learning Mathematical Problem Solving: The Perspective of David Kolb’s Theory},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={706-713},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009914907060713},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - An Analysis of Students’ Error in Learning Mathematical Problem Solving: The Perspective of David Kolb’s Theory
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Winarso W.
AU - Toheri.
PY - 2018
SP - 706
EP - 713
DO - 10.5220/0009914907060713