ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY IN IX GRADE AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AR-RAHMAN PERCUT

This study aims to determine what are the difficulties faced by students and to determine the completeness of each indicator of students' problem-solving abilities. This research is qualitative descriptive study. The study was conducted on students of class IX-A junior Ar-Rahman Percut by totaling 29 people. The research result shows that the number of students who achieve completely at problem solving ability in first indicator is 48.28% (14 of 29 students), the second indicator is 17.24% (5 of 29 students), the third indicator is 6.9% (2 of 29 students) and the fourth indicator was 6.9% (2 of 29 students). Based on analysis of the responses of the students then obtained one of the difficulties faced by students is that students are still difficult to understand the problem in the form of a story or words that are hard to mention the information given to the question and it is hard in changing the form of matter into a mathematical model.