Mathematical literacy in pre-service elementary school teacher: A case study

Abstract

A prospective teacher to possess the ability of mathematical literacy in order to formulate, to apply, and to interpret mathematics in various contexts, including abilities to do mathematical reasoning and use mathematical concepts. The purpose of this research is to describe the mathematical abilities of the prospective elementary school teachers to solve mathematical literacy problems. We involved prospective teachers in the Elementary School Teacher Education Department as the research participants. This research is a qualitative research. Data collected by interview and test. The result of this study suggested that the ability of prospective teachers to solve basic mathematical literacy problems for levels 1 and level 2 were good, level 3 was enough, but for level 4 or above were still low. This was caused by the low ability of mathematical literacy. Pre-service teachers were rarely accustomed to solving literacy questions and they were less used to deal with the connection process in solving mathematical problems.