Thinking process of reflective impulsive cognitive style's student to solving the mathematics problems

Abstract

The thinking process is a process in which a person tries to recall the knowledge he has received, and used to receive, process information and conclude it. This thinking process is influenced also by students' cognitive style because each student has a different way of solving mathematical problems.This study aims to describe the thinking process of students with reflective-impulsive cognitive style to solving mathematical problems in relation and function material which is carried out in VIIIA class at SMPN 1 Tajinan. This research is a qualitative descriptive and the instrument is form a Matching Familiar Figure Test (MFFT) developed by Warli, a problem-solving ability test and an interview test. The subjects were 2 students of SMPN 1 Tajinan at VIIIA class from a total of 17 students. The results of this study indicate that thinking process of the reflective subject is at the stage of understanding the problems tudents are able to write down what is known and what is asked, able to draw up a plan of completion, students can complete the plan of completion correctly, students write a conclusion and based on interviews students re-examine the completion. Meanwhile, for impulsive students, at the stage of understanding the problem, students write down what is known and what is asked, at the stage of compiling a settlement plan, students have made a settlement plan but the completion is not correct, the stage of completing the plan has carried out the completion but the completion is not appropriate, the stage of re-checking for questions number 1 and 2 students have not written a conclusion.