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Visually Impaired Students’ Creative Thinking in Solving a Geometry Problem
Luthfiana Tarida

Last modified: 2021-12-01

Abstract


Every person have equal opportunity to pursue education, with no exception for visually impaired students. Sometime, it is difficult for them to learn mathematics, especially geometry. Geometry usually learned by visual that visually impaired students has limitation due to damage eyesight.. Creative thinking will help visually impaired students to solve this problems. The aim of this paper is to describe how the visually impaired student used creative thinking when solved a geometry problem. Subject of this research is visually impaired student. This research is a descriptive exploratory study with data analysis using qualitative approach. The aspects used to know creative thinking are fluency, flexibility, and novelty. Student use creative thinking when solving problem “Draw a kite with different size of each angle (minimum 2 kites)!”. On novelty aspect, student is able to use their own method on solving problem using right process and result. On fluency aspect, student is able to give more than one related ideas to solve problems and state it clearly. On flexibility aspect, student is able to give variety interpretation to the picture, stories, or problems. Student is able to use variety of strategies to solve the problems. Student can solved mathematic problems by creative thinking.

Keywords


creative thinking; visually impaired student; solving geometry promblem