| dc.description.abstract | The ability of mathematical understanding is one of the purposes in learning activity. By giving
understanding that the materials that have been taught to the students is not only as memorizing, but it is
more as the students’ understanding in mathematical conceptual, especially in lesson Cube and Cuboids.
The ability of understanding is categorized as three levels, they are high, medium, and low understanding.
The research shows that of 35 students grouped based on the level the ability understanding mathematical
students in accordance with test results obtained with 22 students to the ability of understanding high, 11
students to the ability of understanding and 2 students to the ability of understanding low. The student with
high understanding has 4 types, while student who with medium level has 2 types, and student with low
understanding has only 1 type. Scaffolding that is given to the students is based on the scaffolding
characteristics by Roehler and Cantlon, in the stage of mechanical understanding is in characteristics
inviting student participation and offering explanations, in the stage of inductive understanding is in
characteristics inviting student participation and verifying and clarifying understandings, in the stage of
rational understanding is in characteristics inviting student participation and modeling of desired
behaviors, while in the stage of intuitive understanding is in characteristics inviting student participation,
offering explanations and inviting student to contribute clues. The result of analysis using scaffolding
method is the students are more able to understand accurately, but this method is not effective to be used
because it spends much time in learning process, so this method will be more effective if it is used outside
the learning process or it can be developed by using peer teaching. | en_US |
