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This study aimed to describe algebraic reasoning of secondary school’s pupils with learning styles in solving mathematical problem. This study begins by giving the questionaire learning styles and mathematical ability test to get three subjects of 8^th-grade whereas the learning styles of each pupil is visual, auditory, kinesthetic and had similar mathematical abilities. Then it continued with given algebraic problems and interviews. The checking of the data validity using triangulation of time. The result showed that in the pattern seeking indicator, they identified the things that were known and asked based on them observations. Then, visual and kinesthetic learners represented the known information in a chart, whereas the auditory learner in a table. In addition, they found the elements which makes the pattern and made a relationship between two quantities. In the pattern recognition indicator, they created conjectures on the relationship between two quantities and proved it. In the generalization indicator, they were determining the general rule of pattern found on each element of pattern using algebraic symbols and created a mathematical model. Visual and kinesthetic learners determined the general rule of equations which was used to solve problems using algebraic symbols, but auditory learner in a sentence.

Algebraic reasoning, problem solving, learning style, visual, auditory, kinesthetic