The Analysis of Students' Difficulties in Solving Problems of Probability for 8th Grade

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10.2991/incomed-17.2018.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Analysis; Students' difficulties; Probability

Abstract

Probability is one part of mathematics material that is learned in school. In Indonesia, probability is learned from Junior High School level and is continued in Senior High School level. Hence, understanding of probability's concept in Junior High School level is very important. The aim of this research is to analyze students' difficulties of 8th Grade of SMPN 1 Prambanan Klaten in solving problems of probability. The method used in this research is descriptive method. Data collection was done based on students' work through essay test. The result shows that the difficulties which are experienced by the students in solving pobability's problem are the difficulty in understanding proportional reasoning and the difficulty in resolving misconceptions or misperceptions in probability. The misconceptions are representativeness, probability cannot be measured mathematically, misuse or extend conclusions inappropriately, inappropriate reasons, beliefs, equi-probability bias, and possible means certain.

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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  - Seftika Anggraini
AU  - Endah Kusrini
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TI  - The Analysis of Students' Difficulties in Solving Problems of Probability for 8th Grade
BT  - Proceedings of the University of Muhammadiyah Malang's 1st International Conference of Mathematics Education (INCOMED 2017)
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SN  - 2352-5398
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