KEMAMPUAN REPRESENTASI MATEMATIS DALAM MENYELESAIKAN MASALAH ARITMATIKA SOSIAL BERDASARKAN GAYA BELAJAR

Abstract

This research aims to describe mathematics representation of students’ ability based on visual, auditoria and kinesthetic learning style. These research subjects consisted of 3 students; they are a student with visual learning style, a student with auditoria and a student with kinesthetic learning style. This research is qualitative which applied purposive sampling technique for choosing samples.This research applied Arithmetic’s Social material which it taught in grade VII. Research instruments are form of learning style, test of arithmetic’s social and guidelines of questionnaire. The results of this research are (1) Student’s mathematics representation ability which has visual learning style is middle level. (2) Student’s mathematics representation ability which has auditoria learning style is middle level. The student is quite difficult in visual representation. (3) Student’s mathematics representation ability reviewed of kinesthetic learning style categorizes low level.