Recognizing Thinking Process Through Scaffolding

This is a research-based book. The research carried out when seeing the fourth grade elementary school students¿ unique results answer of mathematic counting operation application topic. Those answers described their capabilities of mathematic counting operation is still low. The analysis data shows that the thinking process classified into two categories, instrumental thinking process and relational instrumental thinking process. The students got many difficulties in converting the problems into mathematic sentences, and doing counting operation (subtraction, multiplication and division). The difficulties can be maintained by scaffolding. With the research findings, the researchers suggests the teacher to use scaffoldings technique in learning process by noticing the students¿ comprehension on mathematic counting operation concepts.