Exploring the Knowledge of Content and Teaching (KCT) of prospective math teacher in planning mathematical literacy teaching.

Abstract

This research aims to explore and describe the KCT of prospective math teacher in planning mathematical literacy integration in math class. One student with the highest achievement in mathematical literacy, mathematics, and pedagogic was chosen from 78mathematics education students who were at least in the 5th semester. Data collection methods used were assignment and interviews. The subject was assigned to develop lesson plans to teach math literacy through math teaching in junior high schools. The lesson plans were analyzed by using KCT indicators and interviews were done as a data triangulation. In order to get the KCT profile of prospective math teachers, the data were analyzed descriptively. The results show that eventhough the subject hada good KCT in planning mathematical literacy teaching in math class but he was lack in utilizing mathematics tools and in connecting the math prior knowledge to support the mathematical literacy. The finding of this study suggests that in order to suport students KCT in integrating mathematical literacy on math class, then higher education curriculum need to provide a program or courses to train the students to develop their mathematical literacy through math class.