AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' MATHEMATICS PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY IN VII GRADE AT SMP NEGERI 4 PANCURBATU

The aim of the study was to analyze the student’s mathematics problem solving ability of class VII SMP Negeri 4 Pancurbatu on Quadrilateral. The type of the study is qualitative descriptive. The subject of the study were 31 students of class VII-1 SMP Negeri 4 Pancurbatu 2016/2017 Academic Year. The instruments of the study was Mathematics Problem Solving Ability Test. The result showed that the persentage of students’ problem solving ability in first indicator of problem solving was 75,08%, the second indicator was 66,12 %, the third indicator was 29,03%, and the fourth indicator was 24,19%.