Students with Mathematics Learning Disabilities and Their Ways of Thinking in Fraction Learning

  • Widodo S
  • Ikhwanudin T
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This chapter presents the result of research on ways of thinking of students with mathematics learning disabilities in fraction learning. We conducted a class of fraction learning with Lesh translation model. From the class discussion, interview, and students' work, we then explore the students' ways of thinking when they learn fraction. In the class, students with mathematics learning disabilities perform two mental acts with corresponding ways of thinking and ways of understanding; those are interpreting and problem-solving. We find some interesting findings and they are: (1) students know the common denominator method in the addition of fractions; however, they incorrectly apply the method; (2) students use the common denominator approach (for fraction addition) in the multiplication of fraction; and (3) in the division of fraction, students mistakenly apply the invert multiply algorithm.

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Widodo, S., & Ikhwanudin, T. (2020). Students with Mathematics Learning Disabilities and Their Ways of Thinking in Fraction Learning. In Learning Disabilities - Neurological Bases, Clinical Features and Strategies of Intervention. IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89307

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