Analisis Kemampuan Berpikir Kreatif Matematis Siswa SMP Negeri 19 Mataram Tahun Pelajaran 2014/2015

Abstract

Creative thinking is important things in the learning mathematical. In the SMP Negeri 19 Mataram creative thinking is a new, so that the theacher has not been touched aspects of creative in theaching. The purpose of this research is to know the level of students' mathematical creative thinking ability at SMP Negeri 19 Mataram. The population in this research was 148 students of class VII. The sample in this research was 35 students, it were selected by simple random sampling technique. Data obtained by giving students the instrument of creativity by a test where it has three questions and the intrument has been through the validity test. Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that most of the students have been quite creative, which obtained the data that as much as 34% of students are categorized creative, 49% of students are categorized quite creative. If compared with the gender, the female students are more creative than male students, according to the data which is as much as 23% of female students and 11% of male students are categorized as creative. While based on the students' mathematical creative thinking ability proportional to the achievement, the higher the ability of mathematical creative thinking then the higher the achievement, and vice versa.