The Flexibility of Students’ Mathematical Creative Thinking in Solving Mathematical Problems

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200303.030How to use a DOI?

Keywords

creative thinking, flexibility, mathematical problems

Abstract

The ability to think creatively is needed to live in the era of the 21st industrial revolution and the work field, but learning that is oriented towards creative thinking skills is still lack. This ability can be given to students through mathematics learning so that the characteristics of mathematical creative thinking need to be understood by the teacher. One indicator of the emergence of this ability can be seen from the aspect of flexibility, that is the ability to solve mathematical problems using a variety of different methods. This study aims to describe the flexibility of students’ mathematical creative thinking in solving mathematical problems. The research subjects are senior high school students who have studied systems of linear equations. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with assistive devices in the tests and interviews. The results showed that students already have the flexibility of mathematical creative thinking in solving mathematical problems using a variety of different settlement methods. The methods used are elimination, substitution, and combination methods. The flexibility of students’ thinking is still influenced by the understanding and explanation of the teacher. Students have not given their own ideas in the process of solving. Therefore, teachers should provide training through the use of Multiple Solution Tasks and appliying the Problem Based Learning model with Self Regulation Learning approach so that students are accustomed to thinking flexibly.

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© 2020, 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  - M D Saputri
AU  - I Pramudya
AU  - I Slamet
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/06
TI  - The Flexibility of Students’ Mathematical Creative Thinking in Solving Mathematical Problems
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Multidisciplinary Conference on Education, Technology, and Engineering (IMCETE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 121
EP  - 125
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200303.030
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