Identify Student Errors in Solving Story Problems on Fractions

The purpose of this research is to discover the errors made by students while working on story problems
involving fractions. This study is a descriptive qualitative study. The subjects were fifth-grade students from State
Elementary School 5 Kesu', a class of 13 students, and the student who made the most errors was chosen. Tests in the form
of written questions, interviews, and documentation are used to collect data. The collected data is then analyzed by reducing
it, presenting it, and drawing conclusions. According to the findings of this study, the research subjects made errors in each
question, including reading errors 1 time, understanding the issue 21 times, transformation errors 10 times, calculation
process 14 times, and writing answers errors 6 times.