ABDUCTIVE-DEDUCTIVE STRATEGY: HOW TO APPLY IT IN IMPROVING STUDENT MATHEMATICS LITERACY IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?

Ali Shodikin

School of Postgraduate, Indonesian University of Education,

Department of Mathematics Education

 

Mathematical literacy in this period is one of the important issues in the world of International education in developing countries, including Indonesia. Have been many efforts including the development of learning methods or strategies to improve students’ literacy skills, but still showed unsatisfactory results. Abductive-deductive strategy is an approach to learning that has been developed and applied in order to develop the ability to prove and overcome difficulties in understanding the concept of mathematics essential topics at the level of the student pre-service teacher. The results showed that students pre-service teacher who acquire learning abductive-deductive strategies mathematical reasoning ability have shown better in every essential topic of school mathematics, as well as the proving ability. These are required competencies in mathematical literacy. The next question is”Is this strategy can be applied in mathematics teaching junior high school? How mathematics learning framework with this strategy? How the application of this strategy in a junior high school student’s mathematics learning? How much is the potential to improve students’ mathematical literacy? What is a mathematical literacy? What is the main core of mathematical literacy? What competencies are needed in mathematical literacy? The answers to these questions are the focus of discussion in this article.

Keywords: strategy, abductive-deductive, mathematics literacy, junior high school.

Article is presented on International Seminar on Mathematics, Science, and Computers Science Education (MSCEIS), Faculty of Mathematics and Science Education, Indonesia University of Education, Bandung, Indonesia, Oktober 19^th, 2013

Corresponding Author:

Ali Shodikin

Department of Mathematics Indonesian University of Education

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