Vol.9, No.3, August 2020.                                                                                                                                                                                ISSN: 2217-8309

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TEM Journal

TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, INFORMATICS

Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science

Argument Mapping to Improve Student's Mathematical Argumentation Skills

Nonik Indrawatiningsih, Purwanto Purwanto, Abdur Rahman As'ari, Cholis Sa'dijah

© 2020 Nonik Indrawatiningsih, published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Citation Information: TEM Journal. Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 1208-1212, ISSN 2217-8309, DOI: 10.18421/TEM93-48, August 2020.

Received: 03 February 2020.

Revised:   27 May 2020.
Accepted: 04 June 2020.
Published: 28 August 2020.

Abstract:

This study aims at investigating the difference in students' mathematical argumentation skills before and after the implementation of argument mapping in learning mathematics. It is a quasiexperiment with a quantitative approach. The population was the students of class X Natural Sciences Program in a state senior high school in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia. 36 students were involved. The instrument was a mathematical argumentation skills test. Several components were established, adopted from the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy, namely identifying (C1), explaining (C2), drawing conclusions (C3), reducing/adding premises (C4), deducing (C5), and developing/constructing (C6). Students' mathematical argumentation skills were analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test at 5% level of significance (∝ = 0.05). The findings of this study indicate that students' argumentation skills after the implementation of argument mapping is better than prior treatment (p = 0.002). It can be claimed that argument mapping is effective for improving such skills.

Keywords –Argumentation, Mathematical Argumentation Skills, Argument maps.

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