Development of Habits of Mind Mathematic Questionnaire for Junior High School Students

Abstract

Habits of thinking refer to the characteristics of students, especially in solving problems that will generate new thoughts. There are various characteristics of students in learning mathematics, one of which will be researched and developed based on the results of previous research, namely, making a mathematical habit of mind questionnaire. The developed questionnaire consists of 4 mathematic habits of mind, namely: (i) persisting or never giving up, (ii) managing metacognition, (iii) asking and posing problems, and (iv) applying past knowledge to new situations. Making the questionnaire uses a 4D model in stages, including define (definition), design (design), develop (development), and disseminate (distribution). The results of distributing the questionnaire to 160 students, all four types were successfully filled, namely persisting/never giving up as many as 46% of students, managing metacognition as many as 8% of students, asking & posing problems as many as 22% of students, and the habit of thinking mathematically using past knowledge to new situations as much as 24% of students. Of the four types of thinking habits developed, most students fall into type I: persistence/never giving up. Keywords: Habits of mind Mathematic, 4D development model