Senior high school student’s visual-spatial intelligence according to van hiele geometric thinking theory

Abstract

Visual-spatial Intelligence is very helpful for students in studying the science of geometry which is always associated with the abstract concept of a geometry object. This research discusses the visual-Spatial intelligence of Senior high school students based on geometry thinking level according to van Hiele theory. The design of this research was qualitative research which described visual-spatial intelligence students for each level of van Hiele Theory. According to van Hiele’s theory, The result of this study shows that from 60 high school students, 11 students met the level 0, 16 students met level 1, 28 students met level 2, and 5 students met level 3. This indicates that the students in this research reach more levels higher than the previous level. In addition, the results also show that students who high level geometry. The results showed that there were 11 students of level 0 on geometric ability; 5 students or 45% of students have characteristics of Imaging, 4 students or 36% fulfilled the characteristics of conceptualizing, 1 student or 9% of students have the problem-solving characteristics, and none of the students met the characteristics of the pattern seeking. Next result 16 students in level 1 intelligent on geometric ability. 12 students or 75% students fulfilled the characteristics of the Imaging, 11 students or 69% of students fulfilled the characteristics of the Conceptualizing, 8 students or 50% of the students fulfilled the problem-solving characteristics, and students who met the characteristic of the pattern-seeking did not exist. The results of the visual-spatial intelligence of 28 level 2 students on geometric ability showed that 24 students or 86% of students fulfilled the characteristics of imaging, 23 students or 82% of students fulfilled the characteristics of conceptualizing, 18 students or 64% of students fulfilled the characteristics of problem-solving, and 3 students or 11% of students meet the characteristics of pattern-seeking. The results showed that there were 5 Students of Level 3 on geometric ability; 5 students or 100% of students fulfilled characteristics of imaging, 4 students or 100% fulfilled the characteristics of conceptualizing, 1 student or 80% of students have the problem-solving characteristics, and 1 student or 80% of the students made the characteristics of the pattern seeking.