Skripsi
Students\' strategies in solving spatial problems / Amelia Rizky
Abstrak
Many studies have shown the influence of spatial reasoning in students rsquo mathematics achievement. However spatial reasoning has not received enough attention from most teachers in school leading to low spatial reasoning abilities among students. By understanding the strategies students use to solve spatial problems teachers can improve the effectiveness of spatial-related teaching. Therefore this study aims to describe strategies used by students in solving spatial problems. To fulfill this purpose qualitative research with descriptive design was conducted. A test with spatial problems related to two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometry was given to 63 participants of seventh-grade. Among these participants five were selected as subject for further interview these five subjects are participants with most number of different strategies used. The findings revealed that not all strategies were used by students. The most frequently used strategies were adopting a different point of view solving a simpler analogous problem making a drawing and logical reasoning. Strategies that rarely appear were working backwards finding a pattern guessing and testing and organizing data. While strategies that were not used at all were considering extreme cases and accounting all possibilities.