Readability of Higher-order Thinking (HOT) Mathematical Problems in Disaster Context for Junior High School Students

Abstract

Disaster mitigation efforts in learning mathematics need to be carried out to foster disaster awareness in students through higher-order thinking (HOT) mathematical problems in a disaster context. One effort that can be done is to design HOT math problems with disaster context. However, the problems developed have not gone through the readability test stage by students. This study aims to analyze the readability of HOT mathematical problems in a disaster context for junior high school students. This research is development research limited to the stages of one-to-one and small group only. This study resulted in 16 HOT math problems in a disaster context for junior high school students who had passed the readability test. This research is expected to provide a scientific contribution as a basis and reference for further research and the problems that have been tested for readability can be used by teachers in the teaching and learning process in the classroom.

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“…These findings are in line with the research conducted by Purwanti, Syofiana, and Risnanosanti (2020) and Kamid, Saputri, and Hariyadi (2021). It is also supported by the findings from Harnita, Johar, and Oktari (2022), which measured the readability of questions by examining students' ability to understand the questions, which were easy to read and understand, and also examining the context, which was familiar to the students.…”