Students’ mathematical thinking and their learning style

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the students’ mathematical thinking based on their own learning style. The second objective of this research is to find out which one of the learning styles which has the highest mean score of the students’ mathematical thinking. In addition, this study also aims to find out whether there is a relationship between the students’ mathematical thinking with the learning style they have. Based on the result of research, the students’ mathematical thinking mostly in the medium and high category. Meanwhile, the dimension of learning style possessed by the majority of students is an assimilating learning style. Students with moderate and high students’ mathematical thinking categories, have an assimilating learning style. The mean score of the highest students’ mathematical thinking test is obtained by group of students with converging learning style. Although there is a difference in the statistical description, but the relationship between students’ mathematical thinking with their own learning styles is not significant. Nevertheless, the knowledge of the description of these two variables can serve as a good enough reference for determining the students’ self-development direction in the future.