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 19th, 2013
Corresponding Author:
Ali Shodikin
Department of Mathematics
Indonesian University of Education
Setiabudhi Street No.229, Bandung
Mobile: +62 85743072382
aliandr4@gmail.com