an analysis of student difficulties in solving problems of reasoning absolutevalue material

This study aims to determine the types and factors that cause student difficulties in solvingreasoning problems on the absolute value material. this research is a type of qualitative descriptive. thesubjects of this study were students of class x mipa 5 sman 3 surakarta in the 2019/2020 school year.subjects were taken using a purposive sampling technique. the data collection technique used tests andinterviews. before the test is used, it is validated by an expert. data analysis was carried out using datareduction, data presentation, and concluding. the results of this study indicate that the types of studentdifficulties are 1)fact difficulties, where the subject has difficulty in analyzing and linking the informationfrom the questions with the questions in the questions. the difficulty of the subject is because the subjectdoes not understand the problem and rarely does the problem in the form of a story; 2) conceptualdifficulty, where the subject has difficulty determining the limits of the two absolute value equations. indetermining the limits on the absolute value equation, it is necessary to define absolute value. thedifficulty of the subject is because the subject still does not understand the absolute value material; 3)skill difficulty, where the subject has difficulty performing algebraic operations in determining the valueof x. the difficulty of the subject is because the subject is not careful in doing and checking the writtenanswers again.