Developing The Students’ Problem Solving, Critical Thinking Skill and Mathematics Disposition

Developing problem solving and critical thinking skill is the goal of mathematics learning in cognitive doamin. Problem solving skill is the students’ skill to solve the mathematics problems through several steps: understanding the problem, planning the solution, solving the problem, and rechecking the problem. On the other hand, critical thinking is the ability in applying the concept, analyzing, synthesizing the problem, and evaluating the question. The affective domin should also be considered in learning including mathematics disposition. Mathematics disposition is the students’ tendency to think and act positively including self-confident, diligence, responsibility, open-minded, interest, and inquisitive aspects, and to avaluate their thinking process and perfomence. The teacher can choose a learning model to support the students that is reasoning and problem solving (RPS) learning model. RPS learning model can be used to help the students to solve the problem based on their knowledge, understanding, and skill through reasoning skill to achieve the learning goal