ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS ANSWERS ERRORS IN SOCIAL ARITMATIC MATHEMATICS LEARNING

Abstract

When Students are given math problem, they can work on them until they are finished. But often many student make mistakes in answering these questions. In learning social arithmetic is often associated with real provlems. The sufficient material includes purchase and sale prices, profits and losses, profit abd loss precentages, discount and single interest. Social arith.etic has an important role, namely facilitating buying and sellinh transactions of an item, economic concepts, such as taxes, interest, loss, profit, and minimize the possibility of fraus during transactions. This study ains to analyze the errors in answering arithmetic questions to calculate the level of error and anakysis to witness student learning difficulties what causes student to make mistake in working on math problems in the form of stories on Social Arithmetic material. This type of research is qualitatibe research to examine a small sample of wore are deliberately selectee, namely choosinh 3 wrong answers account certain criteria. There are several mistakes in working in math problems, namelu readinh accuracy, understanding the questions, passinh the correcy formula, and errors in calculations.