A CONCEPT WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IS STILL LIMP: A REFLECTION ON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS LEARNING ON INTERGER MULTIPLICATION OPERATION SUBJECT MATTER

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Mathematics is a subject that requires students to learn how to reason properly. Indeed,
Mathematics in it contains concepts that are abstract in nature, but the abstract concepts can be
bridged by an expression called representation. The most important thing in learning Mathematics
is the proses how students think, even though a process will always lead to a result. Therefore,
it is important for teachers of Mathematics, especially in elementary schools, to use various
forms of representation to present Mathematicsal concepts to be more alive and to be recognized
by students to be able to be brought home to them and use correct Mathematicsal concepts in
their daily lives. In this study an example is given of the representation of the interger
multiplication operation in elementary school Mathematics learning.
Keywords: Mathematics concepts, interger multiplication, Mathematics representation