Effect of Mathematics Anxiety and Intelligence on Students’ Logical Thinking Ability

Mhmd Habibi,Muhammad Ilham,Intan Fitri,Nur Rusliah,Novia Wahyuni

doi:10.32939/ejrpm.v4i2.1102

Abstract

 This study aims to determine the effect of mathematics anxiety and intelligence on students' logical thinking skills. Which involved 96 respondents at high school. The research instruments used in this study were mathematics anxiety questionnaires, intelligence test questions, and logical thinking ability test questions. The data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that there is an effect of mathematics anxiety and intelligence on students' logical thinking abilities.

Highlights

Mathematics has a very important position in human life and in improving the progress of a nation
Based on the existing problems, this study aims to determine the magnitude of the influence of Mathematics Anxiety and Intelligence on Students' Logical Thinking Ability
The instrument in this study was to use a questionnaire about mathematics anxiety to measure students' mathematical anxiety levels, test questions intelligence to measure ability tests intelligence, and logical thinking test questions to measure students' logical thinking skills

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Mathematics has a very important position in human life and in improving the progress of a nation. Because mathematics is part of the curriculum of education given to all students with the aim of training logical, critical, analytical, systematic, and creative thinking skills as well as training cognitive abilities (Zarch & Kadivar, 2006). Students are taught how to count but by learning mathematics students will be able to improve their logical, analytical and systematic thinking skills and be able to apply them in everyday life, so that problems in mathematics can be solved (Putra et al, 2019; Sevgi & Arslan, 2020). Tobin dan Capie (1981) concerning Piaget's theory of children's intellectual cognitive development, assessing students' logical thinking skills using the Test of Logical Thinking (TOLT) which includes five components, namely reasoning proportional, variable, probability, correlational, and combinatorial (Aminah et al, 2018)

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