Kesulitan Siswa Dalam Menyelesaikan Masalah Matematika Berdasarkan Langkah Polya

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe students' difficulties in mathematicals problem solving based on Polya's. The subjects in this study were 2 students of class VII. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques through problem solving tests and interviews. The results of this study are (1) steps to understanding the problem that students have difficulty in understanding the sentences or terms contained in the problem, and students also have difficulty in finding keywords in the problem; (2) steps to devising the plan that students cannot make a mathematical model; (3) steps to carry out planning are students don’t understand the given problem and aren’t yet right in making mathematical models; (4) the step of looking back is that students don’t understand how to look back correctly and students are still lazy in checking the correctness of the answers.