Journal on Mathematics Education (JME)
Vol 8, No 1 (2017)

IMPROVING MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY AND SELF-CONFIDENCE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH CONTEXTUAL LEARNING MODEL

Edy Surya (Universitas Negeri Medan)
Feria Andriana Putri (Universitas Negeri Medan)
Mukhtar Mukhtar (Universitas Negeri Medan)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Dec 2016

Abstract

The purposes of this study are: (1) to know if students’ mathematical problem-solving ability taught by contextual learning model is higher than students taught by expository learning, (2) to know if students’ self-confidence taught by contextual learning model is higher than students taught by expository learning, (3) to know if there is interaction between learning model and students’ early mathematical ability to improve students' mathematical problem-solving ability, (4) to know if there is interaction between learning model and students’ early mathematical to improve students' self-confidence. This study is a quasi-experimental research. The population in this study consists of 180 students in grade VIII SMP Muhammadiyah 11 Pangkalan Brandan. Two classes (60 students) are taken as sample. Data were analyzed by two way Anova. The results of this study indicate that (1) students’ capability of solving mathematical problems taught with contextual learning model is higher than students taught by expository, (2) students’ self-confidence taught by contextual learning model is higher than students taught by expository, (3) there is interaction between learning model and students’ early mathematical ability to improve students' mathematical problem-solving ability, (4) there is interaction between learning model and students’ early mathematical to improve students' self-confidence. Keywords: Contextual Learning Model, Mathematical Problem-Solving, Self-Confidence DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22342/jme.8.1.3324.85-94

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jme

Publisher

Subject

Education Mathematics

Description

Journal on Mathematics Education (IndoMS-JME) is peer-refereed open-access international journal which has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of mathematics education. This journal is founded under collaboration between Indonesian Mathematical Society ...