Jurnal Infinity
Vol 6, No 2 (2017): VOLUME 6 NUMBER 2, INFINITY

LANGUAGE LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS COMPETENCE EFFECT TOWARD WORD PROBLEMS SOLVING

Namirah Fatmanissa (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)
Rahmat Sagara (Institut Teknologi dan Bisnis Kalbis)



Article Info

Publish Date
12 Sep 2017

Abstract

This study aims to know the effect of language literacy and basic Mathematics competence toward students’ ability to solve word problems. The research was done by giving three sets of questions; language literacy (LL) set, basic Mathematics competence (BM) set, and word problems (WP) set; to the research sample.  Research sample was 315 tenth grade students from five schools in Jakarta. Score of students in each set was analyzed as research data. Score of LL set was treated as data of independent variable 1, score of BM set was treated as data of independent variable 2, and score of WP set as data of dependent variable. Preliminary data analyses, such as normality, validity, and reliability test, were done. Then, data was analyzed using Wilcoxon test and calculation of R-square. The result shows that each of independent variable affects dependent variable with BM variable has more effect on WP variable.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

infinity

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

Infinity Journal published by STKIP Siliwangi Bandung (IKIP Siliwangi) and Indonesian Mathematics Educators' Society (IMES) publishes original research or theoretical papers about teaching and learning in a mathematics education study program on current science ...