An Analysis of Students’ Reasoning Ability in the Differential Calculus Course

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10.2991/amca-18.2018.177How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Reasoning ability, differential calculus application

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the university students’ reasoning abilities in the differential calculus course.The students’ reasoning abilities should be developed in order to give them experience to solve problems which are often found during the lecture of the differential calculus course. It isa descriptive research which was conducted in semester 2 in Mathematics Education of State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. The instruments usedwerereasoning problem test and interview. The respondents were6 university students consisting of 2 students with highabilities, 2 students with moderateabilities,and 2 students with low abilities. The research stagesconsistof planning, implementation,and reporting. The research results showedthe followings:(1) The respondents with high abilities tended to fulfill the reasoning process in the following indicators: making hypotheses, doing manipulation, giving reasons of the correctness of solutions, and drawing conclusions; (2) The respondents with moderate abilities merely met the reasoning processin the indicators of making hypotheses and doing the mathematical manipulation; (3) The respondents with low abilities just fulfilled the reasoning process under the indicator of making hypotheses.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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