From integer to real numbers: Students' obstacles in understanding the decimal numbers

R.O.T. Pulungan; D. Suryadi

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1157/4/042086

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From integer to real numbers: Students' obstacles in understanding the decimal numbers

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R.O.T. Pulungan, D. Suryadi

2019 Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 1157 Issue 4 Conference paper Cited by 1 SDG 4

Abstract

The various difficulties and obstacles that students face when they are introduced to decimal numbers are well documented and described in the relevant bibliography. This research is a preliminary qualitative research. The participants of the study are 60 elementary school students from the fifth and sixth grade. The data were collected using the test and interview. The data analysis showed that the elementary school student performance on number sense of decimal was still weak on the component of understanding the meaning and concept of numbers. © 2018 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Pendidikan Dasar, Sekolah Pascasarjana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung, 40154, Indonesia; Departemen Pendidikan Matematika, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung, 40154, Indonesia

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