Students’ perception of reading and understanding mathematics textbook

This study aimed to describe the students’ perceptions of reading and understanding mathematics textbooks. This type of research is descriptive. Participant study consisted of 5 students in the sixth grade of Al-Fadh Islamic Elementary School Palembang. Data collection techniques in this research were questionnaire sheets to determine students’ stages in reading mathematics textbooks and students’ perceptions in understanding mathematics, and the interview was used to make sure their perceptions. Results of questionnaire sheets and interviews were analyzed based on stages of reading mathematics textbooks and students’ perceptions in understanding mathematics as follows: (1) Reading definitions or rules, (2) Reading example problems and (3) Doing problem exercises. Results showed that: The stages that are mostly done by Islamic elementary school students Al-Fahd in reading and understanding sixth grade mathematics textbooks are category 1, namely reading definitions or rules - learning example of problems - doing exercises about 3 students with a percentage 60% while category 2 is reading definitions or rules - learning example of problems - doing exercises for student with a percentage of 20% and category 3 that learning sample questions - doing one question exercise for a student with a percentage of 20%. As for students’ perceptions of understanding mathematics, the most is to understand examples of problems as many as 3 students with a percentage of 30%, understand the definition or rules of 1 student with a percentage of 20% and can do exercises about 1 student with a percentage of 20%.