Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers’ Analogical Reasoning toward Calculus Problems

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the relationship between the educational background of Mathematics Pre-Service Teacher (MPST) at senior high school and their analogical reasoning ability (MPST) in solving calculus problems. The sample of this research is 31 MPST from STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo which consists of 18 MPST with high school natural science background, 3 MPST with social high school education background, 1 MPST with language school education background, 6 MPST with a vocational education engineering background, and 3 MPST with vocational education nonengineering background. The method of this research is quantitative method that uses non-parametric statistics namely correlation 2 (Chi-Square) This study shows that the value of 2 is 6,372. It can be concluded that there is no significant correlation between the educational background of MPST and analogical reasoning.