Integrating Mathematics Literacy and Mathematics Teaching and Learning in a Mathematics Class
Abstract
Having a mathematical literacy means not only mastery the mathematics
content but also able to use it in daily live. As it does not include in Indonesia’s
mathematics curriculum explicitly then the teaching and learning of mathematics should
integrate both the teaching and learning of mathematics and mathematical literacy.
Mathematics problem solving performance modeling as the framework and the local
culture as the context of the problem can be applied to integrate both of them. This paper
aimed to describe how the integration be conducted in the mathematics teaching and
learning. For this purpose, a set of instructional instrument has been developed and
implemented at three classes of two schools. Observation of the teaching and learning
process, and the students-teacher interaction are taken. Based on the research, both the
using of local culture as the context, and habituation of problem solving would attract
the students to learn and strengthen students’s mathematical literacy.