THE INFLUENCE OF REALISTIC MATHEMATICAL APPROACH ON CREATIVE THINKING ABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING STUDENTS IN CLASS VIII

This study aims to determine the effect of a realistic mathematical approach on students' mathematical creative
thinking abilities, to determine the effect of a realistic mathematics approach on students' mathematical problem solving abilities, to determine the interaction between learning and initial mathematics ability (KAM) on students' mathematical creative thinking abilities, and know the interaction between learning and early mathematics abilities (KAM) on students' math problem solving abilities. The data were obtained through the KAM test, tests of creative thinking questions and student problem solving. Data were analyzed using two-way ANOVA test. Based on the results of the analysis (ANAVA), the results of the study with a significant value (sig) α = 0.000 concluded that there was an effect of a realistic mathematics learning approach on students 'creative thinking abilities and the significance value of the interaction was 0.488, meaning that there was no interaction between learning approaches and KAM on students' creative thinking abilities. Furthermore, for the problem solving ability the significant value (sig) α = 0.000 that there is an effect of the realistic mathematics learning approach on students' mathematical
problem solving abilities and the interaction significance value is 0.337 because the significance value is greater than the significant level value 0.05 so there is not enough evidence to reject it. Ho in other words Ho is accepted, meaning that there is no interaction between learning approaches and KAM on students' mathematical problem solving abilities.