STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIONS IN SOLVING WORD PROBLEM OF 3-DIMENSIONAL FIGURE BASED ON VISUAL-SPATIAL, LINGUISTIC, AND LOGICAL-MATEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

Abstract

Nowadays mathematics’ learning is emphasized on learning problem solving. Usually the given problems is word problems. 3-dimensional figure material is often presented in word problems. However, there are still many students who have difficulty in solving word problems in 3-dimensional figure because they have difficulty in representing word problems into mathematical models. One of the factors that influence students’ representation is the kind of intelligence they have. Therefore, the aims of this research is to describe students’ representation with visual-spatial, linguistic, and logic-mathematic inteliigence in solving word problems on 3-dimensional figure. This research used the qualitative approach. The data for this research is obtained through the students’ result of solving word problems on 3-dimensional figure. Representations that use visual-spatial intelligence’s student in presenting information from word problems is visual representation. To determine and express outcomes using symbolic repesentation. Student with linguistic intelligence use visual representation to present information from word problems, using symbolic representation to determine outcomes and verbal representations to express the outcomes. Student with logical-mathematical intelligence use visual representation to present information from word problems and use symbolic representation to determine and express the outcomes.

Keywords: representation, 3-dimensional figure, word problem