Learning in the current 2013 curriculum is based on contextual issues based on questions that can encourage students to think broadly. HOTS is a real-life based assessment of everyday life, but in practice, the students are having trouble completing the HOTS issue. Learning difficulty is also influenced by gesture type. Edward (2010) explain that gesture with speaking skill is data resources about thingking in mathematics, beside that gesture is part of  integral idea in mathematics. McNeill classifies the gesture into 4 types, namely iconic, metaphoric, deictic, and beat. The researcher focuses on the type of deictic gesture that is the type of gesture to show object, event, or point out people. This study aims to describe the difficulty of learning mathematics in students with a type of deictic gesture in the completion of Algebra materials especially in solving HOTS. This research type is descriptive qualitative research. The results showed that students with deictic gesture it was found that a total of 3.45 % difficulties of number fact skill, 4.35 % difficulties of arithmetics skill, 32.08 % difficulties of information skill, 34.16% difficulties of language skill, 23.60 % difficulties of visual-spatial skill.