Analysis toward relationship between mathematical literacy and creative thinking abilities of students

Abstract

Abstract The skills that need to be possessed by teachers, especially mathematics teachers in the revolution 4.0 to deal with 21st century students include critical, creative, collaborative and communicative. Another skill needed is mathematical literacy. The aim of this research is to examine how the relationship between mathematical literacy and student`s creative thinking abilities. In this study, mathematical literacy has three aspects, namely interpret problems, formulate problems, and use mathematics inside solve the problem. And, creative thinking abilities has 4 aspect, namely fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. The type of the research using correlation ex-post facto research which the researcher does not give treatment to the respondent so that this study only reveals the variable as it is without connecting with other variables. Population used is all first semester students in the 2018/2019 academic year at Ahmad Dahlan University, which numbered 315 people with a total sample of 206 people. Technique data collection carried out in this study is data on mathematical literacy and student’s creative thinking abilities taken by distributing test instruments and interview. Test description is tested as much as 5 items which is a matter of mathematical literacy and creative thinking ability. Data analysis using regresion analysis and correlation coefficient test using Pearson product moment correlation technique. The results of the study indicates there is significant relationship between literacy skills mathematics with creative thinking of students.