Guardian high school student’s conception about mathematics as sensible

Abstract

One of the characters that students should hold as the effect of learning mathematics is positive character about mathematics. It means students believe that mathematics is sensible. Students who view mathematics as sensible think that mathematics is interrelated concepts and mathematics is related to other concepts. Students’ conception may be different because basically human have different personalities. There is a relation between student conception about mathematics and their personality type. One of the personality type based on Keirsey Temperament Sorter is guardian. This study describes guardian high school student conceptions about mathematics as sensible. One female student whose personality type is Guardians is purposively selected as a research subject. The subject is assigned a mathematics real world problem and interviewed based on the problem solving task to measure her conception about mathematics as sensible. The interview guideline is developed based on SCOMAS framework. The result indicates that guardian subject shows the conception that mathematics is sensible. However, not all of the indicators can be verified. The subject plans a strategy and alternative strategy to solve the problem, explains the way to solve the problem and the reason of applying some concepts, and connects the solution to the real situation. The subject doesn’t show the activity of seeking connection among mathematics concepts.