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Abstract

This research was aimed to (1) describe the thinking process of male students in solving group problems; (2) describe the thinking process of female students in solving group problems. This research was carried out at Universitas Islam Majapahit. Subjects in this study were one male student and one female student who had equivalent mathematics skills and comunicative. This research was an explorative research using a qualitative approach. Data collection was done by task-based interviews. The results showed significant differences between the two subjects. At the stage of understanding the problem, the male subject was better at understanding the symbols in the problem than the female subject. But the female subject was better at retelling the question than the male subject. At the stage of problem solving planning, female subject were more consistent in the use of concepts than male subject. At the stage of implementing the settlement plan, male subject were better at using principles and wrote symbol than female subject. At the stage of examining the completion of the female subject more systematically than the male subject.

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