The Analysis of Students’Mathematical Problem Solving Ability on Quadrilateral Material in VII Grade Student Muhammadiyah 57 Medan Junior High School

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This research aims to determine students' problem solving ability in solving Quadrilateral material. This study is a descriptive qualitative research. Instruments tend to be used in this research were tests and interviews. Subjects in this research is students of class VII-2 junior high school Muhammadiyah 57 Medan totaling 30 students. The results of data analysis stating that there are only 6 students (20,00%) is achieve the criteria of problem solving ability, while there are still 24 students (80,00%) is not achieve the criteria of problem solving ability. Based on the percentage of achievement indicators of problem solving ability, overally students were only able to achieve the indicator ‘understanding the problem’ with at 70.67%, while the indicator ‘devising a plan’ only at 41.33%, indicator ‘carrying out the plan’ at 65.33%, and the indicators ‘looking back the problem solving’ at 40.67%. Based on the analysis of students' answer sheet and interviews which has been conducted, student’s mathematical problem solving ability of class VII-2 junior high school Muhammadiyah 57 Medan is still low.

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