Dear Mr. Yohannes,
I am really impressed by your presentation and also your paper^ topic.
I have questions related to your paper.
In your opinion, what instrument is most suitable for assessing students^
mathematical resilience? And how to assess it with those seven indicators? Giving a
score or how?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Yovika Sukma
Replies:
Hi Ms. Yovika Sukma,
thank you for asking me this good question.
As we know that mathematical resilience is an affective domain of learning
goals. So, in order to assess students^ mathematical resilience, we need an
instrument for measuring it. According to theory and its implementation, the
proper instrument that can be used to assess students^ mathematical resilience
is questionnaire scale. This scale consist of several indicators that build
mathematical resilience. For example, the finding of this study tell us about 7
indicators that build mathematical resilience. Then, we can formulate several
statements based on the 7 indicators and use likert scale (with given score 1 to
4) to help us to work quantitatively. Lastly, using the descriptive statistics we
can analyze the data using hypothetic mean to determine the classification of
resilience level and then interpret the condition about students^ mathematical
resilience ability. I think that^s all i can explain to answer you question.
Hopefully, it is an useful information. Once again, thank you.
Thank you for responding my questions, Mr. Yohannes.
And also, thank you for your great explanation toward my question.
I got all the points. Once again, thank you.
Dear Mr. Yohannes,
It is an honour to watch your great presentation,
Well, I ever teach mathematics for elementary students, sometimes I am struggling
to motivate them in learning due to their anxiety toward Mathematics.
In this occasion, I would like to ask about, how to minimize elementary students^
anxiety through implementing mathematical resilience?
Thank you in advance.
Hello, Ms. Nana Diana.
Thank you for your kind question.
I^ll try to answer your question.
Inevitably, students often feel anxiety in mathematics. Especially for elementary
students who are still learning to understand the basic concepts of mathematics,
they will often experience difficulties which will ultimately make them worried or
afraid of mathematics. However, by developing mathematical resilience in
students, mathematics anxiety can be overcome. Some solutions that we can
use to develop mathematical resilience in students (supported by the opinions of
Johnston Wilder et al. (2015), Newman (2004), Taylor & Tyler (2012), and
Benard (1991)), such as:
1) Creating a comfortable and pleasant learning atmosphere for students. In
this case, learning while playing can be a fun learning activity.
2) Designing and implementing fun learning strategies so that mathematical
material can be understood easily and meaningfully, for example, like hands-on
activity.
3) Providing a space for students to gain their own mathematical experience so
that students are trained to manage problems properly, find appropriate
solutions, not be afraid of failure, and be able to manage thoughts and emotions
when facing difficulties.
4) Providing social support to students in the form of motivation, attention, and
moral support, especially when students experience failure in learning
mathematics.
5) Support the existence of positive interactions between students and peers,
especially in the context of mutual support for learning mathematics.
6) Inviting students to be active in classroom learning and also activities outside
the classroom, such as extracurricular activities, because extracurricular
activities can foster soft skills for students, including resilience.
By doing some of the above methods, it is expected that students^ mathematical
resilience can develop so that mathematics anxiety can be minimized or even
disappeared. Thank you.
