I.S. Putra, M. Masriyah, R. Sulaiman
This qualitative study aims to describe students' ability of translation between mathematical representations (visual and symbolic) of visual, auditory or kinesthetic learners. The students' translation ability between mathematical representations was seen from the process undertaken during the translation, namely: unpacking the source, preliminary coordination, constructing the target, and determining equivalence. The participants of this study were three junior high school students with different learning styles, having the similar mathematical ability. The participants were given a translation ability test between mathematical representations and followed by semi-structured interviews. Then, the data were analysed by step of data condensation, data display and conclusion. The results of this study showed that at the unpacking the source stage, they are able to unpack the representations of a given resource by identifying the information contained in the source representations. At the preliminary coordination stage, they can prepare a formula or strategy as a first step to determine the target representations. In the constructing the target, they can transfer information obtained from the source representations to form a target representations. At the determining equivalence, they consider the target representations made by the representations of the given source. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Department of Mathematics, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia
