Approach to Learning Mathematics with Metacognitive Guidance

Abstract

The process of student's metacognition is a thought consciousness within the students so that it can perform special tasks, and then use that awareness to control what students will do. Metacognitive guidance based on the self-questioning who constructed own students through exercises on a regular basis. The purpose of this study is to describe the metacognitive guidance grade VIII SMP Negeri 12 Kendari. The results of this research show that students who use a metacognitive guidance approach better than the students who use the conventional approach, the existence of the metacognitive guidance approach makes the students interpret a problem so that it is capable of describing a mathematical problem with their own language. Therefore, it is able to solve math problems. In addition, this study uses a metacognitive guidance approach focused on four basic questions that must be mastered students, i.e., comprehending the problem, constructing connections, use of strategies, and the reflecting.