LEVELING OF STUDENTS’ CRITICAL ABILITY IN SOLVING MATHEMATICS PROBLEM BASED ON GENDER DIFFERENCES

Rasiman, Rasiman (2015) LEVELING OF STUDENTS’ CRITICAL ABILITY IN SOLVING MATHEMATICS PROBLEM BASED ON GENDER DIFFERENCES. Intemational Journal of Education and Research (IJERN).

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Abstract

This qualitative research aimed to formulize the levelling of students’ critical ability in solving mathematics problem based on gender. The data collection was gathered by interview based task. The research subjects were the eleventh grader students of SMA Islam Sultan Agung Semarang. This research revealed that (1) the more critical students’: (a) the female was able to solve a problem correctly and carefully. Besides, she looking back her works, (b) the male was able to solve a problem correctly but he did not careful and did not looking back his works, (2) the critical students, (a) while planning the problem they tend to be trial and error, (b) the female student looking back her works, but the male student did not, and (3) the less critical students, they were able to create the plan by writing the formula several times but they were not able to solve the problem correctly. Keywords: critical thinking ability, mathematics problem, gender

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