Students’ Creative Thinking in Solving Mathematical Problems Using Various Representations
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.026How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- creative thinking, problem solving visual representation, symbolic representation
- Abstract
The present study aims at identifying students’ creative thinking in applying various representations to solve mathematical problems. This descriptive study was done in a senior high school in Makassar, Indonesia. The subjects were two selected students with high spatial-visual intelligence taken from 62 grade XI students who participated in the pre-test. The data were gathered from students’ written work in problem solving and visual-spatial test, and interview. The analysis of data was done qualitatively using deductive approach. The research showed that the students’ creative thinking was involving the symbolic and visual representation, and visual-spatial intelligence. The steps of creative thinking can be explained in four steps, as follows: (1) Preparation, including information gathering (symbolic representation) and problem translating, (2) Incubation, including ideas and conjectures constructing, (visual and symbolic representations), connecting and recalling the appropriate concepts to solve the problem (3) Illumination, including ideas designing and applying (visual representation) and (4) Verification, including solution testing (symbolic representation) and conclusion making.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dwi Novitasari AU - Tabita Wahyu Triutami AU - Nourma Pramestie Wulandari AU - Abdul Rahman AU - Alimuddin Alimuddin PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/28 TI - Students’ Creative Thinking in Solving Mathematical Problems Using Various Representations BT - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 99 EP - 102 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200827.026 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200827.026 ID - Novitasari2020 ER -