Proceedings of the 1st Seminar and Workshop on Research Design, for Education, Social Science, Arts, and Humanities, SEWORD FRESSH 2019, April 27 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia

Research Article

Students’ Perception on Representation of Addition and Subtraction in Math Word Problems Using Indonesian Language

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286920,
        author={Sumarwati  Sumarwati and Budiyono  Budiyono},
        title={Students’ Perception on Representation of Addition and Subtraction in Math Word Problems Using Indonesian Language},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st Seminar and Workshop on Research Design, for Education, Social Science, Arts, and Humanities, SEWORD FRESSH 2019, April 27 2019, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={SEWORD FRESSH},
        year={2019},
        month={9},
        keywords={semantic structure representation addition and subtraction mathematics word problem indonesian language},
        doi={10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286920}
    }
    
  • Sumarwati Sumarwati
    Budiyono Budiyono
    Year: 2019
    Students’ Perception on Representation of Addition and Subtraction in Math Word Problems Using Indonesian Language
    SEWORD FRESSH
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2286920
Sumarwati Sumarwati1,*, Budiyono Budiyono1
  • 1: Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia
*Contact email: watik_uns@ymail.com

Abstract

Words or phrases that represent count operations in word problems are bridges that connect mathematics and the real world. That linguistic structures are known as a semantic structure and influenced the complexity of word problems. This study to identify the type of semantic structure as a representation of addition and subtraction using Indonesian and to find out student perceptions of semantic structures that are difficult to understand. The document analyzed is a collection of word problem that made by teachers. The participants were primary school students and teachers for level five in Central of Java that majority of students use Javanese as the first language. The findings are as follows. First, based on semantic structure in word problem, the addition can be classified into merging, unification, change, and comparison. The subtraction of semantic structure can be classified into displacement, separation, change, and comparison. In multi-operations, there are many types which are a combination of that eight types, such as merging-displacement, merging-separation, and unification-separation-change. Second, such semantic structures are difficult to understand, especially the phrase "more than" to represent subtraction and “fewer than" to represent the addition.