Impact of Infusing Truth-Seeking and Open-Minded Behaviors on Mathematical Problem-Solving

Authors : Abdur Rahman AS`ARİ, Dian KURNİATİ, Abdul Halim ABDULLAH, Makbul MUKSAR, Sudirman SUDİRMAN

Pages : 1019-1036

Doi:10.17478/jegys.606031

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Publication Date : 2019-12-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The aims to investigate the impact of infusing truth-seeking and open-mindedness toward students’ dispositions and achievement. The study employed an educational design research approach, and a total of 20 in-service mathematics teachers from Indonesia were involved in the study. These participants were taught using two different treatments during a one-semester mathematical problem-solving course. In the first treatment, students were encouraged to assume that all provided information in the problems is correct; meanwhile, in the second treatment, students were encouraged to seek the truth and analyze the possible different point of view. Both treatments were employed alternately every week. The result of the study indicated after the infusion period that students tend to show critical thinking dispositions when they have to solve a mathematical problem, and their mathematics achievement also outperforms students who never informed truth-seeking and open-minded behaviors.
Keywords : critical thinking disposition, infusing, mathematical problem solving, truth seeking, open minded