The Influence of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) Approach on Students' Mathematical Representation Ability

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10.2991/icei-17.2018.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Realistic Mathematics, Student Representation Ability

Abstract

In this research, the researchers compared mathematical repre-sentation ability between the students who were taught using Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) and those who were taught using conventional approach, according to their gender and learning styles. This quasi experimental research was carried out at three junior high schools, involving 174 eighth grade stu-dents in Bukit Tinggi, Indonesia. Those schools were purposively selected to represent three different categories of schools (high, middle, and low). The data were collected through questionnaires and test. The results showed that the students' mathematical representation ability was higher when they were taught using RME than when the students were taught using conventional approach, irrespective of their gender. Similar findings were found in relation to the students' learning styles, except for the students with auditory learning style from the school in the mid-dle category. In the end, it can be concluded that the RME ap-proach contributed to the improvement of students' mathemati-cal representation ability.

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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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AU  - Ahmad Fauzan
AU  - Edwin Musdi
AU  - Riri Yani
PY  - 2018/02
DA  - 2018/02
TI  - The Influence of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) Approach on Students' Mathematical Representation Ability
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 12
SN  - 2352-5398
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