Mengembangkan Kemampuan Metakognisi Siswa Melalui Pembelajaran Matematika

As part of an educational institution, teachers have the responsibility and important role to equip students with a variety of skills. Younger generation is now faced with the need for 21st century skills, commonly referred to as 21st century skills. These skills include learning and innovation skills, information, media, and technology skills, as well as life and career skills. Demands and challenges for students are no longer merely identifying the subject matter, but also having the ability to solve various problems related to the knowledge. One of the capabilities relevant to these needs is the ability of metacognition, namely the ability to: 1) plan problem solving strategies, 2) monitor the problem solving process, and 3) evaluate the results of problem solving. There are various reasons why this important metacognition ability is developed in students. By having good metacognition skills, students will be trained to be good problem solvers. This is because the ability of metacognition encourages students to be able to determine what strategies are appropriate and not in accordance with the problems faced. This ability also encourages students to conduct evaluations and improvements based on the results obtained. Considering the importance of metacognition abilities, each learning process is expected to be able to facilitate the development of these abilities, including mathematics learning. This paper tries to explain what is meant by metacognition abilities, what is important for students, and how the teacher's role in developing these abilities through learning mathematics.