Junior high school student’s strategy in partial formal correspondence relationship generalization

Abstract

Partial formal correspondence relationship generalization is general rule that described the correspondence relationship of the pattern. Symbolic statements were obtained through relating, searching and extending process by paying attention to the parts of the image on the problem partially. The purpose of this research was to describe junior high school student’s strategy in partial formal correspondence relationship generalization. This research was a qualitative research with data collection method by using think aloud and interview. Subjects in this research there were two students selected from five students who were included in the category of partial formal correspondence relationship generalization. The results showed that the strategies undertaken by students in partial formal correspondence relationship generalization was a contextual strategy. In relating process, the subject observed and they were given the image partially and they connected the parts that existed in the picture. In searching process, the subject found the same pattern or procedure based on the information obtained from the image contextually. Then in extending process, the subject applied the pattern or procedure obtained while searching for a more general case.