Number pattern generalization process by provincial mathematics olympiad winner students

Year 2020, Volume: 8 Issue: 3, 991 - 1003, 15.09.2020

Andi Mulawakkan Firdaus , Dwi Junıatı , Pradnyo Wijayanti

https://doi.org/10.17478/jegys.704984

Cited By: 3

Abstract

This research aims to explore the Number Generalization Process of the winner students of Mathematics Olympiad. The Number Generalization Process in this study is based on APOS theory. This research is explorative research with a qualitative approach. The subjects of the study were the junior high school students who won the provincial mathematics Olympiad in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Subjects were given instruments that had been developed, namely the number patterns generalization test. Data collection of this study is the number patterns generalization test and in-depth interviews. The data analysis process was reducing, describing, validating, and concluding. The results showed that the students who won the Olympics in the action stage determine the next term, if given a sequence by using a number pattern. At the stage of the process, action interiorizing by calculating the value of the next term repeatedly and explaining the process of determining the next term. At the object stage, encapsulating the process by showing that a number pattern has certain characteristics, de-encapsulating by assessing the observed pattern, and checking the number pattern found. At the schema stage, explaining the generalization properties of number sequence patterns by linking the actions, processes, objects of a concept with other concepts, doing thematization by linking the existing concept patterns to the general sequence.

Keywords

Pattern Generalization, APOS Theory, Number sequence, Mathematics olympiad

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