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Abstract

The activity of finding answers to mathematics problems is not easy. Most of MTs Attaraqqie Malang’s students have difficulties when solve PtLSV problems. Students can’t transform narrative texts to mathematics sentence so that they are hard to find the right answer. Therefore, the researchers do a study that aims to describe the form of student difficulties in solving PtLSV problems and the implementation of scaffolding. This research is a qualitative-descriptive research. The research was conducted in MTs Attaraqqie Malang which was attended by 28 students of class VII. The PtLSV problem is given as many as three items. Three research subjects were selected from diagnostic tests, interviews, and mathematics teacher suggestions. The results showed that students: (1) difficulty of understanding the problem (can’t write down the information that was known and asked the question correctly) so assisted by scaffolding level 2 explaining and reviewing; (2) difficulty of devising a plan (can not determine the initial step and the right concept in solving the problem) and assisted by scaffolding level 1 environmental provision and level 2 reviewing; (3) difficulty of carrying out the plan (unable writing mathematical model according to the problem, not using the correct concept, and can not do systematic calculation so that the final result obtained is wrong) and assisted by scaffolding level 2 that is reviewing and restructuring and level 3 is developing conceptual thinking; (4) difficulty of looking back (not checking the truth of answers and difficult to interpreting answers) and assisted by scaffolding level 2 reviewing and level 3 developing conceptual thinking.

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