Abstract
The ability of students to apply mathematics has been regarded as an important goal of mathematics education in many countries, including Indonesia and Singapore. One of such abilities is the competence of mathematical modelling. Presenting students with mathematical modelling task is one of the efforts to improve their competence of mathematical modelling. This study aims to describe the characteristics of mathematical modelling task in Indonesian and Singaporean mathematics textbooks. This study used a qualitative approach with content analysis technique. The books analyzed in this study were an Indonesian mathematics textbook published by the government and a Singaporean mathematics textbook: Discovering Mathematics. Classification category for the modelling tasks is adapted from the classification made by Katja Maaß (2010). The results of analysis showed that there is no significant difference between Indonesian and Singaporean mathematics textbooks. Indonesian mathematics textbook contains contexts that are still small as well as Singaporean mathematics textbook. Therefore, more comprehensive research is needed with regard to curriculum content and learning strategies in Indonesia and Singapore.
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