Learning Number in Early Childhood and Its Relationship with Mathematics Anxiety

Surya Sari Faradiba, Cholis Sa’dijah, I. Nengah Parta, Swasono Rahardjo

2018

Abstract

Numbers and operations are basic mathematics materials that can be taught to young children. This material is very important because it is the basis for the development of the next mathematical abilities. Therefore, we need to developmental progression in this topic, so as to provide a strong mathematical foundation for children. A convenience sample of 20students was recruited from an elementary school in Malang, Indonesia. Out of 20 students, only 2 of them were chosen as the sample under the consideration that they are the most communicative.The interviews were semi-structured, covering main themes such as the number and their operations, with follow-up questions to ensure that the interviewer had interpreted the answers as intended.The tests were administered to students as individual interviews. The instrumentsused in this study weremathematics tasks and the mathematics anxiety questionnaire consistingof 20 items with five response choices in the form of face images.Student's answers to the mathematics task are analyzed based on developmental progressionin learning number and operations, that is:Number-after equals one more, Mentalcomparisons of close numbers, Number-after knowledge, Counting-based comparisons of collections larger than or equal with four, Meaningful object counting, and Subitizing (small-number recognition). The results of this study indicate that students who are incomplete in developmental progression have higher math anxiety scores while learning mathematics

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Faradiba S., Sa’dijah C., Parta I. and Rahardjo S. (2018). Learning Number in Early Childhood and Its Relationship with Mathematics Anxiety.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 753-760. DOI: 10.5220/0009916307530760

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Surya Sari Faradiba and Cholis Sa’dijah and I. Nengah Parta and Swasono Rahardjo},
title={Learning Number in Early Childhood and Its Relationship with Mathematics Anxiety},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={753-760},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009916307530760},
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 - Learning Number in Early Childhood and Its Relationship with Mathematics Anxiety
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Faradiba S.
AU - Sa’dijah C.
AU - Parta I.
AU - Rahardjo S.
PY - 2018
SP - 753
EP - 760
DO - 10.5220/0009916307530760