Students’ Learning Difficulties in Learning Mathematics in View of Mathematical Resilience

Abstract

In the learning process can not be separated from the difficulties experienced by students. The difficulty is in the form of students' lack of success in understanding concepts, principles, and story problems, even though students have tried to learn them. To overcome these difficulties requires a positive attitude, resilience and not easily give up from students in facing these difficulties. The purpose of this research is to describe the forms of learning difficulties in students who have high mathematical resilience. The approach in this study is qualitative with a case study type. Data collection instruments used test sheets, questionnaire sheets and interview sheets. Test sheets and interviews are prepared based on indicators of learning difficulties while questionnaire sheets are prepared based on indicators of mathematical resilience that are used to classify students' mathematical resilience categories. Data analysis techniques through data reduction, data presentation, and draw a conclusions. The results showed that students in the high and midle mathematical resilience category were able to use mathematical concepts, principles, and word problems well and used the right steps, but students in the high mathematical resilience category had difficulties in the process of determining the results of addition and subtraction. The causes of learning difficulties experienced by students are due to the lack of supervision of learning from parents, the physical and psychological conditions of students, and also the learning environment.