PISA Problems Solving of Students with a Visual Learning Styles

Abstract

Mathematics’ problem on PISA measures students’ ability of reasoning, problem solving and argument. So far, students are not well trained in solving PISA problems. Therefore it is necessary to know the ability to solve mathematical problems to be taken into consideration in providing questions that are similar to PISA questions. This study aims to describe students’ ability to solve mathematical problems oriented to PISA on space and shape content. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. The subjects of this study were students who have visual learning styles. The instruments in this study involves PISA mathematics question about space and shape content and student learning style questionnaires. The data analysis techniques used were data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. In obtaining data validity, researchers used sources triangulation. The results of this study show that students with a visual learning style understand the problem systematically and clearly by determining the known and unknown of the data. At devising a plan phase, students could find the connection of the given diagram and they have constant character. At the carrying out the plan, students solve the problem coherently. At the looking back phase, students did not recheck every steps on problem solving as they confident with their answer.

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