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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Language, Culture and Diversity
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1540865
The Influence of Students' Learning Style and Personality Characteristics on Their Mathematics Problem-Solving Skills
Provisionally accepted- 1Universitas Bina Bangsa Getsempena, Banda Aceh, Special Region of Aceh, Indonesia
- 2Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Provinsi Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
- 3Universitas Negeri Medan, Medan, Indonesia
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Problem-solving skills are one of the indicators of intellectual behaviour and higher-order thinking skills that learners need to master. The way to improve students' mathematics problemsolving skills is to know their learning style and personality characteristics and the influences on each variable. The research goals are to describe the students' mathematics problem-solving skills and to examine the influence of gender, grade level, learning style, personality characteristics, and the interaction between learning style and personality characteristics on students' mathematics problem-solving skills. The population is all students in 5 state elementary schools and 5 state junior high schools, with a sample size of 200 students. A statistical test was carried out by t-test and ANOVA. Students' mathematics problem-solving skills are generally (72.77) with category "moderate", where there are 60.50% of students who have mathematics problem-solving skills with categories of moderate and above. Gender and grade level have no significant influence on the students' mathematics problem-solving skills. The students have different mathematics problem-solving skills in every different learning style and personality characteristics. The learning style, the personality characteristics, and the interaction between learning style and personality characteristics have significant influences on the students' mathematics problem-solving skills. The learning style of "auditory-kinesthetics" has a significant influence on the students' mathematics problem-solving skills. The personality characteristics of "steadiness-compliance" and "dominance-influence" have significant influences on the students' mathematics problem-solving skills. The interaction of learning styles and personality characteristics of "auditory-kinesthetics steadiness-compliance" and "auditory-kinesthetics dominance-influence" has significant influences on the students' mathematics problem-solving skills.
Keywords: Problem-solving skill, learning style, influence, Personality characteristics, gender, Grade level
Received: 06 Dec 2024; Accepted: 14 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Jonni Sitorus, Universitas Bina Bangsa Getsempena, Banda Aceh, Special Region of Aceh, Indonesia
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