Examining Prospective Teachers’ Mathematical Communication Skills in Statistics

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10.2991/icomse-17.2018.41How to use a DOI?

Keywords

prospective math teachers, communication skills, statistics

Abstract

The mathematical communication skill is an important thing to support the teachers’ role as facilitators in helping students to master 21st-century skills. The efforts to improve the skill must be well prepared since they are still as prospective teachers. The communication skill involves some aspects. Therefore, to improve the skill of prospective teachers, it must be identified what aspects need to be improved. This study aims to describe students' mathematical communication skills in Statistics. The mathematical communication skills in this study refer to the students' skills to 1) present the data or information into table or diagram correctly, 2) use mathematical terms, symbols/notations, charts, diagram, illustrations or formulas correctly, 3) solve the problems correctly and systematically, and 4) provide the correct reasons or explanations on the solution they got. The participants of this study are 35 students of Mathematics Education Department, Yogyakarta State University who enroll in Statistics course during September to December 2016. The data of this study are collected from the midterm exam and final exam of the semester. The research shows: 1) the students' mathematical communication skills in Statistics are at the medium level; 2) the ability to use correct mathematical terms, symbols/notations, charts, diagram, illustrations or formulas seems to be the lowest one among the four skills measured in this study; and 3) most students have difficulties in solving problems related to probability. The results indicate that the students' mathematical communication skills are serious issues that need to be addressed.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Djamilah Bondan Widjajanti
AU  - Endang Listyani
AU  - M Susanti
AU  - W Setyaningrum
PY  - 2017/08
DA  - 2017/08
TI  - Examining Prospective Teachers’ Mathematical Communication Skills in Statistics
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Mathematics, Science, and Education (ICoMSE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 91
EP  - 95
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icomse-17.2018.41
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