Students learning obstacle in modeling the topic of quadratic equations
Bagus Ardi Saputro, Didi Suryadi, Rizky Rosjanuardi, Bana G Kartasasmita

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

The inability of students to understand problems and translate sentences from word problem to mathematical problem leads researchers to find out the cause of the problem. Ten-word problem were given to sixty students to complete. Class discussion is done afterwards to find out the problem of students in solving the problem. The results of the analysis show that the problem with the type of context camouflage is the main cause of students not understanding the problem so that students cannot model correctly. We recommend to use the problem with real context on every word problem.

Keywords: learning obstacle, word problem, quadratic equation, modeling

Topic: Mathematics Education