Internal process: what is abstraction and distortion process?

Geometry is one of the branch of mathematics that plays a major role in the development of science and technology. Thus, knowing the geometry concept is needed for students from their early basic level of thinking. A preliminary study showed that the elementary students have difficulty in perceiving...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2018-03, Vol.983 (1), p.12086
Main Authors: Fiantika, F R, Budayasa, I K, Lukito, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Distortion
Geometry
Physics
Students
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Summary:Geometry is one of the branch of mathematics that plays a major role in the development of science and technology. Thus, knowing the geometry concept is needed for students from their early basic level of thinking. A preliminary study showed that the elementary students have difficulty in perceiving parallelogram shape in a 2-dimention of a cube drawing as a square shape. This difficulty makes the students can not solve geometrical problems correctly. This problem is related to the internal thinking process in geometry. We conducted the exploration of students' internal thinking processes in geometry particularly in distinguishing the square and parallelogram shape. How the students process their internal thinking through distortion and abstraction is the main aim of this study. Analysis of the geometrical test and deep interview are used in this study to obtain the data. The result of this study is there are two types of distortion and abstraction respectively in which the student used in their internal thinking processes.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/983/1/012086