THE COMPARISON OF MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING AND CONNECTION THROUGH COGNITIVE CONFLICT OF PIAGET AND HASWEH

Cognitive conflict believed as the process of how knowledge is constructed. There are three the cognitive conflict theory, namely Piaget, Hasweh, and Lee. Piaget cognitive conflict is known as cognitive imbalance. According to him, cognitive conflict is built from imbalance between cognitive structures with information coming from it. Equally, imbalance may be occurs between internal structures with external input. Hasweh cognitive conflict is known as metacognitive conflict. According to him, cognitive conflict built from contradiction between old cognitive structures with new cognitive structure or with is being learned. This research tried to compare mathematics abilities (mathematical understanding and connection) through implementation of teaching material design compiled based on the two cognitive conflict theory, namely cognitive conflict of Piaget and cognitive conflict of Hasweh. Result of the research indicates that mathematical understanding and connection ability of student through both teaching material designs does not significantly different