The Analysis of The Students’ Creative Thinking Ability in Mathematics as Viewed from their Learning Style and Educational Background

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10.2991/iceri-18.2019.21How to use a DOI?

Keywords

students, mathematics, educational background

Abstract

This study aimed to describe mathematical creative thinking ability viewed from students’ learning styles and educational background. The subjects of this research are 26 preservice teachers. The data of this research were taken from the questionnaires, tests, and interviews. The research design uses triangular qualitative. The result shows that the subjects possess different creative thinking abilities as seen from the perspectives of learning style and educational background. Most of the subjects (12 students) have low creative ability (46.1%). They are not yet able to apply the four aspects of the mathematical creative thinking. The subjects from high ability category have already done all of the aspects in creative thinking, except the originality aspect. They still used the same way of solution. The subjects from medium category also have done the four creative thinking aspects, except fluency and originality aspects. The highest mathematical creative thinking aspect was achieved by subjects from Senior High School (Natural Sciences class) with auditory learning style. The second-high achievement was made by Madrasah Aliyah (MA) students with auditory style, and the next was from Vocational High School with auditory learning style too. Out of the four mathematical creative thinking ability aspects, the flexibility, originality, and elaboration aspects should remain to be the attention of teachers.

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© 2019, 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  - Wahyudi Wahyudi
AU  - Budi Waluya
AU  - Hardi Suyitno
AU  - Isnarto Isnarto
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - The Analysis of The Students’ Creative Thinking Ability in Mathematics as Viewed from their Learning Style and Educational Background
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Research and Innovation (ICERI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 373
EP  - 378
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceri-18.2019.21
DO  - 10.2991/iceri-18.2019.21
ID  - Wahyudi2019/07
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