Abstraction Ability of Students About Fractions Through Local Cultural Approaches

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10.2991/assehr.k.210227.082How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Abstraction ability, Fractions, Contextual approach

Abstract

Fractions are concepts in mathematics which difficult for students to understand. Mathematical concepts are abstract. The purpose of this study was to describe students’ abstraction abilities about fractions through a local cultural approach. It is exploratory research. The subjects of this study were 5 elementary school students. It is selected through a snowball technique. Task-based interviews were applied in this study. His job is to solve contextual problems about eating pizza in a family. In-depth interviews were conducted by researchers on research subjects. The result of the research is that students have reached the concept and principle of fractions correctly if the abstraction process starts from something close to the culture around the student. It is a horizontal mathematical process. Students are able to provide different but correct arguments to provide the right solution. The conclusion is that contextual problems trigger students to perform various abstraction processes. It can improve the ability to understand the concept of fractions.

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© 2021, 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  - Khathibul Umam Zaid Nugroho
AU  - Wahyu Widada
AU  - Dewi Herawaty
AU  - Raudya Tuzzahra
AU  - Berta Panduwinata
AU  - Nadya Sospolita
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/01
TI  - Abstraction Ability of Students About Fractions Through Local Cultural Approaches
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Sciences and Teacher Profession (ICETeP 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 480
EP  - 485
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210227.082
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210227.082
ID  - Nugroho2021
ER  -