Abstract
This research focuses on the analysis of mathematics metacognitive skills of Papua’s students in School of Indonesian Children in solving mathematics learning problems. The research was conducted to provide a good quality education for Papuan students, so the research start the research from the metacognitive skills especially in mathematics. The respondents of the research are 6 students from grade VII in School of Indonesian Children. Those respondents are represent of higher mathematical ability, medium mathematical ability, and lower mathematical ability. The research used descriptive qualitative research method. Data collection procedures used in this research was in-depth interview and participant observation as well as documents related to metacognitive process in solving the problems in learning mathematics. The in-depth interview was with the respondents, the Principal, the mathematical teacher and the Character Building teacher. For documents related to metacognitive process in solving the problems in learning mathematics such as the result national exam in elementary, the result daily test of math, the result of quiz or homework. In general, the students in Papua were lack of mathematics metacognitive ability such as, lack of cognitive knowledge and cognitive regulation, sometimes they cannot perform the activities that reflects conscious metacognitive such as mathematics problem solving. The research result indicates that the structure metacognitive ability of students in Papua influences their problem solving ability in learning mathematics. This metacognitive ability is also influenced by the fact that it becomes their characteristics background as respondents from Papua.
Highlights
Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia
The world map shows that Indonesia has many islands, so Indonesia is called as an archipelagic country
The native youth of Papua who were sent to study in other places in Indonesia experienced a little complicated adaptation process, if they came from the remote area of Papua
Summary
Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia. The world map shows that Indonesia has many islands, so Indonesia is called as an archipelagic country. The native youth of Papua who were sent to study in other places in Indonesia experienced a little complicated adaptation process, if they came from the remote area of Papua The adaptation process they were facing included adaptation in daily life habit and learning process at schools. Based on the pre-observation conducted by the researcher in Grade VII Junior High School of School of Indonesian Children, it was found that the students at Grade VII had difficulties in solving the problems in narrative questions in studying mathematics at school, for example: they could not understand the problem, needed many key words to help them, could not think forward and backward, and needed more time to solve a problem. It is expected to find out the thinking process of the native Papua students in solving the problem on mathematics learning, the social arithmetic materials
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