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To achieve learning goals, students from every level of education must be involved in learning experiences to develop their mathematical connection abilities. This research aims to discover more detailed pictures of students' mathematical connection abilities on indicators that they are still lacking. The type of research that will be used in this research is qualitative research with descriptive approach. This research will be carried out at SMP Negeri 11 Tanjungpinang using research subjects, namely 33 students in class VIII-I. However, researchers only described 9 of 33 students. Researchers collected data using mathematical connection test questions and student interviews and the data analysis technique used was the data analysis technique proposed by (Miles and Huberman in Angelina, M., & Effendi, K.N.S., 2021) which consists of data reduction, data presentation, and concluding with the results of the level of students' mathematical connection abilities consisting of 3 students in the high category, 5 students in the medium category and 25 students in the low category. Students who have high mathematical connection abilities can solve the problems given. Students who have moderate mathematical connection abilities tend to be able to solve problems even though there are errors in answering questions and incomplete writing of answer results. Students who have low mathematical connection abilities tend not to be able to solve problems to measure mathematical connections. When researchers researched this, researchers found that schools were still implementing the K-13 curriculum, where students were presented with learning material from teachers. This makes students rarely explore their abilities in connecting the lessons they have learned.
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