Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)

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

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Umy Zahroh
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Umy Zahroh
Available Online July 2018.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-561-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/amca-18.2018.177How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, 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/).

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