What I can reflect about Psychological Aspects if the student is confronted with the following question

The question is

Tiga tahun yang akan datang umur Yudi menjadi enam kali umur Erik. jumlah umur mereka saat ini adalah 68 tahun. Umur Erik saat ini adalah ... tahun

a. 10 b. 11 c. 12 d. 13

If the students get the question above, there are some students feel confused about what the question wants. They don’t know what the question about. After that they will look the question only, because they don’t understand what they have to do. So they will ask for their friend who can solve the question. The class will be noise because most of the student can’t solve the question.

I think the student will ask the teacher how to solve the question. They think the question is quite difficult. So they need the teacher’s help. If they can’t solve it quickly, they will don’t like mathematics more. It will reduce the motivation of the student to solve the other question. They will always think that mathematics is difficult. They won’t to try to solve some mathematics problem later. It makes them dislike the mathematics. Most of the student like that are easy to surrender.

In spite of that, there are some students who enjoy this situation. They will enjoy solving the question, because they think that they can solve the question. They will try to understand the question about by read it first. After that they will try to solve the question patiently.

If they can solve it, they will be motivated to solve other question. They think that mathematics is interesting and they can’t solve it, they will ask for the teacher then. They will always try to solve more mathematics problems. Most of the students who are able in mathematics are hard workers.