Intan Mahyastuti, Hery Susanto
In this information era, we always interact with the data needed to make a decision. The data information obtained is often not only observed, processed, and displayed but also interpreted. Analytical thinking necessary in interpreting or understanding data and information so that someone can take the right decision. This article aims to describe students' analytical thinking in solving contextual problems. The design of this research is qualitative-descriptive. The participant of this research were four students of VIII grader SMPN 5 Malang, and they were taken based on the results of the student's work on the answer sheet and the results of the interviews. Subjects criteria selected were from students with different strategies in solving contextual problems. The results show that some students use different strategies and some students use more than one strategy that indicates the process of analytical thinking which includes differentiating, organizing, and attributing in finding the solutions of a contextual problem. © 2020 Author(s).
Universitas Negeri Malang, Semarang 5, Malang-East Java, Indonesia
