The Profile of Structure Sense in Abstract Algebra Instruction in an Indonesian Mathematics Education
Junarti
,
Y. L. Sukestiyarno
,
Mulyono
,
Nur Karomah Dwidayati
The structure sense is a part that must be learned in order to help understand and construct connection in abstract algebra. This study aimed at build.
- Pub. date: October 15, 2019
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The structure sense is a part that must be learned in order to help understand and construct connection in abstract algebra. This study aimed at building the pattern of a structure sense as a profile of the structure sense in group property. Using a qualitative study, the structure sense of group property was explored through lecturing activity of abstract algebra course from two individual assignments given to the students. The students who could provide the best answers from the first and second individual assignments were chosen to be the respondents. The data from the second assignment, then, was analyzed through presentation, interpretation, coding, making a pattern, leveling and continued with clarification through an interview. The results of the study show that there were six patterns of structure sense answers and five levels of structure senses made by the students as the profile of structure sense. The conclusion is the inability to recognize the structure of the set elements, operation notations, and binary operation properties is one of the causes of the constraints in structuring the proof construction of the group. Thus, a thinking of mathematics connection is needed in structure understanding as a connection between symbol in learning and the symbol of abstract.
Keywords: Structure sense, group property, element structure.
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