Sumaji Sumaji, Akbar Sutowijaya, Subanji Subanji, Tjang Daniel Chandra
BACKGROUND: Mental health is a state of well-being that an individual can realize, in which, there are abilities to manage the normal stresses of life, to work productively and productively, and to participate in their community. AIM: This study aimed to establish health mentality on using number sense on operations with integers at the Indonesian elementary school level. METHODS: This research was a qualitative study utilizing tests and interviews as a data collection technique. Setting of the study was a Private Elementary School in Indonesia, Sekolah Dasar Muhammadiyah Terpadu (SDMT), Class VI students. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: The result of the study showed that an individual who is mentally healthy can use his abilities or potential to the fullest in facing life‘s challenges, as well as establishing positive relationships with other people and the use of number sense on operations with integers are: Numeracy skills 52.2%, numerical knowledge 30.5%, transformation skills 21.7%, estimation skills 65.5%, and numerical patterns 52.2%, which is categorized as a healthy mind. CONCLUSSION: Based on the results and discussion above, it can be concluded that the indication of mental health of students correlated with number sense ability in solving integer operations questions for elementary school students is: Numeracy ability 52.2%. It was due to the lack of emphasis on the order of numbers in the learning process. The knowledge ability is 30.5%. © 2022 Sumaji Sumaji, Akbar Sutowijaya, Subanji Subanji, Tjang Daniel Chandra.
Department of Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo, Ponorogo, Indonesia; Department of Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
