Students’ creative thinking skills in solving mathematics higher order thinking skills (HOTS) problems based on online trading arithmetic

Abstract

Online trading arithmetic is a new learning that is used to improve students’ creative thinking skills in solving mathematics higher order thinking skills problems. Besides, it can also improve students’ entrepreneurship skills. The learning process online trading arithmetic uses several market place applications such as Shopee, Bukalapak, and Tokopedia in which many online sellers offering the same item at different price. In addition, there are many possibilities to change the price of an item so students are interested in getting the best price for maximum profit. This research aimed to determine the differences of students’ level of creative thinking in solving mathematics Higher Arithmetic Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) problems after the learning of online trading arithmetic. This research employed a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The research subjects were junior high school students consisting of 20 students which was divided into two groups; the control and experimental groups. The control group received regular arithmetic learning (control class) while the experimental group received online trading arithmetic (experimental class). The results of this research indicated that: (1) the level of students’ creative thinking skills in solving mathematics HOTS questions in the experimental group showed the majority of students are in the creative category, while in the control group was less creative; (2) the metacognitive level of the majority of students at MTs Miftahul Huda Muncar Banyuwangi was at level 3 (aware use) for the experimental group while it was at level 2 (aware use) for the control group; (2) the result of statistical analysis showed the significance value of Sig. (2-tailed) was 0.00 < 0.05; it can be concluded that the implementation of online trading arithmetic learning had a significant effect on students’ creative thinking skills; moreover, (3) there was an effect of the students’ metacognition level on their creative thinking abilities, which indicated that the higher the students’ metacognition level, the higher their creative thinking level.