The Students’ Mathematical Communication Skills Based on The Levels of Self-Awareness

Abstract

Mathematical communication is one of the important skills that students should possess. This mathematic communication skill belongs to the cognitive realm and is influenced by the affective one, one of which is self-awareness. Thus, this study is aimed at finding out the students’ mathematical communication skills based on the subjects’ self-awareness. The subjects of this study are the students of the Mathematics Education Program in one of the private universities in Indonesia. The instruments of the study are a mathematical communication skill test, interview guidelines, and a questionnaire on self-awareness. The results of the study revealed that the students of the High and Medium self-awareness categories were able to find a way to finish the questions of the linear program in all indicators, namely mathematical expression indicator, drawing, and writing. In the first indicator in the Low self-awareness category, the subjects were able to make a mathematic model in the form of a system of linear inequalities. In the second indicator, drawing, the subjects could not perform the completion stage by counting every angle in the solution set area.