August 11, 2025Jurnal Pendidikan MIPAOpen Access

The Challenges of Junior High School Students in Solving Fraction Problems Based on Newman's Error Analysis

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Qualitative analysis reveals understanding gaps in fraction problems among eighth-grade students, indicating potential instructional needs.

Students show no errors in reading, suggesting they extract information well from problems.
In the comprehension stage, 16.84% misinterpret questions, leading to incorrect solution steps.
Errors in transformation appear in 26.94% of cases, indicating struggles with verbal to mathematical conversion.
The highest errors occur in encoding, with 28.96% unable to write the final answer correctly.

Doni et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Qualitative analysis reveals understanding gaps in fraction problems among eighth-grade students, indicating potential instructional needs.