Van Hiele’s Theory: Transforming and Gender Perspective of Student’s Geometrical Thinking

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the level of geometrical thinking of junior high school students in Bantul District using the Van Hiele test. The research approach was descriptive qualitative. The research subjects were students in grades VII and VIII in 4 junior high schools in Bantul district. The supporting instruments in this study were tests consisting of 25 multiple choice questions developed by Usiskin. Data were analyzed descriptively and qualitatively through several basic statistics. The results showed that there were 59.15% of students at the visualization level, 8.62% of students at the analysis level, and 1.42% of students at the informal deduction level. While the remaining 30.81% is in the previsualization category. In addition to the above categories, there were several students whose geometric thinking level was in the transition level category. The number of students who meet the criteria for the pre-analysis level and pre informal deduction level was 9.33% and 2.72% respectively. While viewed from a gender perspective. In general, Van Hiele's geometrical thinking level of male and female respondents did not differ much but male respondents had the potential to increase their geometry thinking level more than female respondents