Reza Salsabila Aulia, Purwanto
One of the characteristics of people who have a critical thinking disposition is to carry out activities with skepticism. Skepticism can encourage someone to think critically which raises a doubt about something that is absorbed. This study was conducted to describe the intuitive abilities of skeptical students based on their level of solving sequence and series problems. This research is qualitative with an exploratory descriptive type to analyze students' intuitive thinking skills based on the level of student skepticism. The research was conducted at a public school in Malang. The participant of the research was 69 grade X students, from which 6 students were randomly selected from each skepticism level. This included 2 students with high skepticism (questionnaire scores of 75-100), 2 students with moderate skepticism (questionnaire scores of 50-74), and 2 students with low skepticism (questionnaire scores of 20-49). The result shows that in solving mathematical problems, the intuitive thinking character used by subjects with a high skeptical attitude are common sense, power of synthesis, and catalytic inference. The characteristics of intuitive thinking used by subjects with moderate skepticism are common sense, catalytic inference, and power of synthesis. The characteristic of intuitive thinking that subjects with low skepticism use are common sense, and catalytic inference. © 2025 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
Department of Mathematics, Universitas Negeri Malang, Jl. Semarang No. 5, Malang, 65145, Indonesia
