Students' Learning Obstacles in Solving Math Story Problems on Number Material during the Covid-19 Outbreak

Abstract

The Covid-19 outbreak greatly impacts education, particularly the ineffective learning process, with some pupils having learning obstacles. This study analyses the learning obstacle experienced by madrasah ihtidaiyah pupils in solving math story problems on numbers material during the Covid-19 outbreak. The research used a descriptive qualitative method. The data took from 19 fourth-grade pupils at one of the madrasah ibtidaiyah m Bandung district tough tests and interviews. The data analysis through me stages of data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The results showed that pupils' learning obstacles were ontogemc, didactical, and epistemological. In the ontogemc obstacle, some pupils did not get the concept of summing fractions The didactical obstacle that occurs in pupils due to learning during the outbreak held alternately onlme and offline, onlme learning held through the WhatsApp group, which was less effective, and no learning design combined onlme and offline methods effectively The epistemological obstacle experienced by pupils was when the teacher gave questions in a different context from the examples It happened due to the limited time of mathematics lessons during the outbreak.