Stages of Creative Thinking Visual Male Students in Solving Geometry Problems

Abstract

The stage of creative thinking is the process of thinking by students to generate ideas, plan, and produce a problem solving Geometry. The result of students’ creative staging in solving Geometry problems can enable a smooth, flexible and new product of creativity. Phasing in creative thinking requires a way to process, organize and process information so that in solving geometry problems to be effective and efficient. The fact that occurs in elementary schools shows that educators pay less attention to triggers the occurrence of student creativity and some even underestimate the type of student learning styles. Dissolution of this student learning style raises, diminished ideas in building a completion of geometry, and even results in the lack of maturation of adequate planning, resulting in failure of students’ creative products. This study aims to describe the creative thinking process of elementary school boys with visual learning style in solving geometry problems. The subjects in this study were male students with a type visual learning style. Data collection is done by providing geometry problem solving test questions to male subjects, and if at the time of completing the first problem solving test sheet there is data that is not written or not disclosed then an in-depth interview is immediately conducted on the subject, then triangulation of time is carried out by providing second problem solving test. The data that has been obtained is then analyzed by doing the transcribing, categorization, reducing, interpreting of data and drawing conclusions. The result showed that all stage of creative thinking in solving geometry problems can be done by male subjects correctly, which starts with generating ideas through reading and observing pictures and can link information that is known to the past with present information, so that the subject can identify information that is known and what is asked, and can do three different and correct planning processes, so produce true, smooth, flexible and new creativity products.

Keywords: stage of creative, Products of creative, geometry problems, style learning and male