The level of students’ reading comprehension on proof by mathematical induction

Lestyanto, Latifah Mustofa; Sudirman, Sudirman; Susiswo,; Hidayanto, Erry

doi:10.1063/5.0000564

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“…Students in this level can identify critical procedures, premises or conclusions and identify critical ideas in proof. The finding of previous study by Lestyanto, et al [3] indicates that most students comprehend MI procedurally and even still find difficulties in it. In general, many students do not know how to apply the premises in other situations.…”

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confidence: 73%

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The Factors Influencing Students’ Proof Comprehension on Mathematical Induction

Lestyanto¹,

Rahmadani²,

Asmianto³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the 2nd National Conference on Mathematics Education 2021 (NaCoME 2021)

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Mathematical Induction (MI) is a subject that mathematics students have known since senior high school. However, many students lack understanding about MI and still incorrectly prove propositions using this proof method, even though they are 4-year students. Hence, investigating factors that influence students' comprehension of MI is needed. This study is a qualitative study that aims to investigate and analyze factors that could be influenced how students comprehend MI. The data were obtained within 2 phases. Participants were asked to write down the proof of provingquestion in phase 1, and they were interviewed to deepen the information in phase 2. The evidence suggests that conceptual aspects have to be focused more using many different ways of teaching strategies than the procedural one. Some factors which influence students' comprehension of MI include content knowledge, the experience of proving a variety of problems, the strategy of teaching used by lecturers, the language of the textbook, and the ability to do some algebraic manipulation.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…Moreover, the errors even occur in proof written by 4-year students. In previous study, Lestyanto, et al [3] find that there are just few students who can achieve chaining element level when they read proof by mathematical induction. Chaining element level is the third level of reading comprehension model introduced by Yang and Lin [4].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%