Logical thinking skills of primary school teachers

Abstract

Logical thinking is an ability that everyone needs, without exception. Someone who has good logical thinking will be able to finish their problem with the right strategy. As a teacher, this ability is very important, especially if they teach in primary school. The existing phenomenon in mathematics lessons is they always teach just procedural work, however, a teacher shouldn't be like that. A teacher that couldn't explain a mathematics concept can be said they don't have sufficient logical thinking skills. The aim of this research is to prove whether that phenomenon is right or not. In order to do so, we used descriptive qualitative methods by took some active primary school teachers then provided some simple mathematics questions to see whether they can explain a mathematical concept or they just use a procedural work. The result shows that most of the teachers used procedural work to answer the questions. This means that they do not have sufficient logical thinking skills. So, the phenomenon right exists. Therefore, to reduce this phenomenon a teacher should understand well the concept that they will teach, especially in mathematics lessons.