Profile of students’ creative and innovative thinking in solving open-ended mathematics problems about the coffee plantation

Abstract

Creative and innovative thinking skills become an important thing for students to solve a problem. This research aims to describe the students’ ability of creative and innovative thinking for solving open-ended problems about coffee plantations. The type of this research is qualitative descriptive. This research was conducted on the students of class VIII B Junior high school 1 Jember. The instruments used were creative and innovative thinking test in the form of open-ended problems and interview guidelines. The data collection methods used in this research were test methods and interviews. After all students of class VIII B had been given the test, then research subjects were selected using snowball sampling technique to get saturated data. Based on the data analysis, the profile of class VIII B students’ creative and innovative thinking skills with 36 students is: 44% fulfilling 4 indicators, 19% fulfilling 3 indicators, 0% fulfilling 2 indicators, 6% fulfilling 1 indicator, 31% fulfilling 0 indicators. It shows that generally, students have quite good creative and innovative thinking skills. Students can use several ways to solve problems. Students are able to find unique ideas to solve problems. Students expand, select, analyze and evaluate the basic idea of problem solving. Students use the creative idea on the innovation of problem-solving.