Analysis of Students Misconception on Inequality
Nurmala Setianing Putri (a*), Dadang Juandi (a)

a) Departemen Pendidikan Matematika, Fakultas Pendidikan Matematika dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Jl. Dr. Setia Budhi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
*nurmalasetianingputri[at]upi.edu

Abstract

That learning from home carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic has several obstacles that can result in decreased understanding of students concepts and can even caused students misconception, especially in mathematics. Thus, seeing kind of misconceptions on mathematics which is classified as basic and prerequisite for many concepts, such as inequality, is important. Therefore, this study aimed to find information, and analyze misconception and alleged causes of misconception in the inequality. The method that used in this study was a qualitative method with a sample consisting of 9 students of class XI at one of the high schools in the city of Bandung through giving a test consisting of 5 questions and conducting interview to students who made mistakes in doing the 5 questions. From the research results, there were four types of misconceptions that was experienced by students on 5 inequality questions. Some of these misconceptions were caused by students lack of understanding on some of the prerequisite concepts for inequality, errors in understanding inequality and overgeneralization. For further research, the researchers should give more complex questions to students so that misconceptions can be studied in more deeply.

Keywords: Misconception, Inequality

Topic: Mathematics Education