Analisis Kesulitan Siswa dalam Menyelesaikan Soal Cerita pada Materi Trigonometri Ditinjau dari Langkah Polya

Abstract

This study aims to determine students' difficulties in solving story problems in terms of the polya completion steps. The method used is descriptive quantitative. The subjects in this study were students of SMK Kesehatan Bhakti Medika Cianjur (BMC) as many as 20 people who were given test questions and 6 people were taken purposively to be interviewed. The instrument used is a description of the test and interview questions. Data analysis techniques are in the form of words and use percentages for student answers which are then described. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that: 1) At the stage of understanding the problem students had difficulties due to the difficulty of changing from story form to mathematical form, difficulty in making mathematical models and lack of understanding of the meaning of the problem; 2) At the stage of making a problem-solving plan, students have difficulty due to forgetting the formula used, lack of understanding of the concept, and difficulty changing the completion step to its mathematical form; 3) At the stage of implementing the problem solving plan, students experience difficulties because students do not know the right solution steps to solve the problem; 4) At the stage of concluding the answer and linking something obtained with what is in the question, students experience difficulties because students are less careful in making conclusions and are reluctant to re-examine them.