Open AccessThe 6th grade students’ view in understanding mathematics through reading mathematics textbook
Author(s) -
Aisyah Turidho,
Yulianita Maharani,
Darmawijoyo Darmawijoyo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1480/1/012061
Subject(s) - mathematics education , reading (process) , core plus mathematics project , connected mathematics , philosophy of mathematics education , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy
This research aims to describe students’ views in understanding mathematics by reading a mathematics textbook. The subjects of this research were 6 students on grade VI at Singapore International School (SIS) Palembang. This is descriptive research. The research instruments were interviews and questionnaires. Based on the results, 50% of students read a mathematics textbook by reading definitions or rules, learning examples of the problems and doing exercises. And 50% of students read a mathematics textbook by learning examples of the problems, reading definitions or rules and doing exercises. In understanding mathematics, 16.7% of students felt understood mathematics textbook after understood the definitions or rules, 33.3% of students felt understood mathematics textbook after doing the mathematics problems, 33.3% of students felt understood mathematics textbook after doing exercises and 16.7% of students felt understood mathematics textbook after doing mathematics problems and understanding definitions or rules.