SCHOOL MATHEMATICS 1

LIMIT

BY

Widhi Amalia Putri 1611440001

Syafira Zalzabilah R. Akil 1611440009

Alyvia Jhuly Andani Fraftiek 1611442007

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES

STATE UNIVERSITY OF MAKASSAR

2017
A. Difficulties In Learning The Material Limit
Mathematics in education is one of the most important subjects.
Starting from the lowest level of formal education up to the highest absolute
mathematical lessons must be learned. One of the quite central in mathematics
is calculus. In a note, the essence of the lessons of calculus i.e. the limit of a
function.
As for looking at the reality, the limit of a function be constraints in
the field. There are still many students who have difficulty in working on
problems related to the limit of a function. This material seems to be a scary
Specter for the high school students. Therefore, we began conducting
interviews against high school students and teachers to analyze the layout of
the difficulties of the students in learning the material limit of a function. The
interviews we do are as follows:
a. the student Interview
Name : Syadzah
Class : XII
School : SMAN 3 Makassar
1. are you senior high school students?
Answer: Yes, my senior high school students of class XII
2. do you never learn the material limit?
Answer: Yes, ever.
3. What is the limit of a material according to you hard or not?
Answer: Actually, this material is easy enough to understand when the
teacher explain it in just that would be difficult, if we do not wish to
repeat again learn the material.
4. when you compare between the limit of algebra and trigonometry, about
which is more difficult?
Answer: the Limit of algebra.
5. What does you did when come across reserved limit more difficult in the
test?
 Answer: normally I would bypass the problem and then work on the
easier problem after that I will ask to a friend even cheated.
6. are you feel satisfied when the value of the results of Deuteronomy were
shared, and the sister gets the highest value but the result of a cheat
sheet?
Answer: no, because I feel it's not if.
7. what to do when your teachers explain the material limit then the you
doesn't understand it?
Answer: I would usually ask to a friend first then to the teacher.
8. are you feel the difference the way learning materials in schools and limit
the place of les?
Answer: I usually more familiar explanation of material from teachers
from my school les but now ppl students arrival, then I better understand
the explanation of the teaching staff in place of les.
9. Does the school teach teacher you in quick steps in resolving the
question of the limit?
Answer: no, the teachers usually use general steps to resolve the
problem.
10. When you given homework by teachers at the school, whether you feel
challenged to exercise or just waiting answers from a friend?
Answer: I feel lazy working on when I do not understand the material.
11. are you feel lazy every time see reserved limit?
Answer: I will try to work the problem however when having trouble I'll
stop working on it.
12. are you school, applying KTSP or K13?
Answer: KTSP.

Based on the results of these interviews can be aware that students

often have difficulty in working on a matter relating to the material of the limit
of a function. This is because students are doing less training in working on
problems and lack of interest of students for trying to learn the material limit,
 as well as the lack of ways teachers in schools to interest students in working
on these questions. Teachers in school tend to provide general steps in
resolving the problem of the material limit whereas there are many quick steps
to solve the problem but it is not taught by the teacher. This makes the
students feel bored and lazy to tackle problems such as exercise material
regarding the limit of a function.
As for the observer based on experience in learning the material, i.e.
the limit of the material being taught school about limit quite easy to
understand just how the settlement of the question of the exercise limit
sometimes seized quite a long time in normal use so we easily feel lazy in
practicing answering problems limit. We felt a difficulty when learning the
material limit of trigonometric functions. This is due to too much a formula
that should be used to answer the question and it takes a bit of intuition to find
the answer eventually.
Learning this material requires us to always think critically as well as
thorough. Any one of us ever decides to les maths, when it comes to the
material limit he discovered new things in resolving the problem of the limit
of a function i.e. the form of quick steps in resolving the question of the limit
without consuming a lot of time. Over time the material limit of a function
does not need to be feared again in learning in school. This is very helpful in
learning as well as teaching this material in the future.

B. Teacher difficulties in teaching statistics at school (Kesulitan guru dalam

mengajar statistika di sekolah).

Name: Nur Alamsyah

Profesi: Tentor and college student

1. Have you ever been taught the material limit?

Answer: Yes, I have
2. What Grade you teach?
Answer: I teach the material time limit applies in semester 2 k tsp curriculums,
grade 11
3. What about the curriculum of 2013?
Answer: If there is a limit in 2013 curriculum
4. Have you ever taught in the curriculum of 2013?
Answer: During the 2013 curriculum, I have never been taught about the material
5. What are the difficulties of teaching students about the material limit?
Answer: The actual material that limit, I consider that this material can still be
handled or there is no difficulty in my opinion, because the average that I learned
was to the students never from their fundamentals limit because if we learned the
basics of the limit it very hard, so I instantly love formulas as fast so easily. So he
doesn't need to know where the limit is, how her limit. I teach him that does not
need to know, so I volunteered him directly like this, then the way the work was
also like this, here's a way to overcome it, I instantly love the instant way.
6. According to you, when describing the material limit to students, if students do
not ask, whether he understood or not?
Answer: If students do not ask the obvious, from my experience, I've taught my
students, all of them understand.
7. Then, why are there still students who ask to have done his duties, let
alone some task is about the limit?
Answer: If it were, as long as I teach I have never been able to consulting the
homework I never could, because I teach, direct to the point so if for example we
are using quick way “El-Hospital”, that's the one I use in the process of the work
you see.
8. Whether the “El-Hospital” it?
Answer : “El-Hospital” that we use the system limit we scaled back our
substitution x then approached him, then from x we substitution then we will get
the result.
9. But is all limit can use it that way? As the limit of trigon, and so on.
Answer: If I use a trigon limit how fast the other, this special limit of algebraic
forms, for example for algebraic forms we use “El-Hospital”, to speed the way
there also trigonometry without us using the old way or the basics of limit, a quick
way to trigonometry it a lot, and easier to work on trigonometric limit than limit
algebra.
10. How do I easily used for trigonometric limit?
Answer: Trigonometric limit how easy it was, I used the concept of “SINTA”, the
concept of “SINTA” where there is sin and cos directly crossed out, so the rest of
the variables.
11. So what did you teach the limit that's not difficult?
Answer: No, I think it is not difficult.

C. Alternative solutions in overcoming difficulties in Learning Limit at

school.
As for the solutions that we offer in solving the problem of the
difficulties students in learning limit, namely:
1. Solutions to Overcome the difficulties of the teacher in teaching Materials
of Mathematics (Limit).
a. Delivery learning objectives
Teachers should reproduce the insights in a variety of fields related to
mathematics that teachers can convey the purpose of the student needs to
learn, so students also felt that mathematics was important as a basic
insight into the face of the real world.
b. Learning Media
Teachers should be more creative in making digital media as well as
media Manipulatives. Teachers can make a proposal to the School to
provide supporting facilities learning.
2. Solution of the difficulties in studying Students Mathematical Material
(Limit).
In General, one of the alternative solutions to overcome the
difficulties experienced by students both the ability of high, medium or
low can be done with an intuitive approach. This aims to improve the
understanding of the concept of the limit of a function alajabar in students.
In addition the intuitive approach could also stimulate students to think
and to increase the motivation of students because of the penasarannya.
Most of the difficulty lies in the understanding and application of the
concept of the limit of a function algebra as for ability to aljabarnya
operations can be trained with a varied workout reproduce problem so that
the sensitivity of the students against the problem could be sharp again.