Analysis of Students’ Understanding Concepts on Algebra Topics Reviewed from Students’ Attitude Toward Mathematics

This research discusses how students’ abilities to understand mathematical concepts are grouped into three types of students’ attitudes toward mathematics. Three types of student attitudes were obtained using a questionnaire which then obtained positive, neutral, and negative attitudes towards mathematics. This research aims to find out how students’ ability to understand concepts with positive, neutral, and negative attitudes towards mathematics. The form of research used is qualitative descriptive research because it prioritizes process rather than results. Students are given test questions and interviews are conducted to validate the validity of the student test result data. The indicators for understanding the concept used in this research are 7 indicators. This research shows that students with positive attitudes toward mathematics fulfill 6 indicators of the 7 indicators of conceptual understanding used in this research. Students with a neutral attitude towards mathematics can fulfill 5 of the 7 indicators of understanding the concept. Students with negative attitudes are only able to understand 1 indicator and tend to be lazy when taking tests.