Visual, Symbolic, and Verbal Mathematics Representation Abilities in Junior High School’s Students

The purpose of this research is to describe the ability of mathematical representation that includes visual, symbolic, and verbal representations of eight grade of junior high school students in solving math problems. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The instrument that is used in this research is the main instrument (researcher) and supporting instruments (test and interviews). The test is given to 31 students of eight grade B of Junior High School 2 Ngawi. The research subject consisted of two students who provided more information to be studied more deeply. Subjects were selected based on the purpose of sampling technique, namely based on the results of students’ written answers which showed more than one representation ability for each number. The results showed that students were able to use various kinds of representations in solving the problems given, although there were still errors in the calculations. Students can fulfill their visual representation skills well, namely presenting information in the image form. Students are less able to find the ability of symbolic representation, which is marked by formula errors and calculation errors. Students can fulfill verbal representation well, namely writing statements in written sentences.