Mathematics is one material that most students do not like. In addition to being less attractive, elementary school students also tend to have grades among their peers. This shows the lack of attention applied in learning mathematics. This study aimed to analyze the relationship and influence of cooperative characters with student responses by using traditional games in learning. This type of research uses quantitative methods with the type of comparative research. This research was conducted by distributing questionnaires. The data analysis technique used is random sampling. The research subjects in this study were 120 students. The results obtained are that the cooperative character in the traditional game of Congklak is superior, which is in a very good percentage (60%). The student's response to the traditional game of congklak was very good (55%). The results of the correlation test of the cooperative character of students in traditional games, namely, there is a relationship between the character of cooperation with students' responses to the traditional game of congklak in mathematics. It can be said that there is a relationship and influence of the character of cooperation with student responses. The implication of this research is that playing traditional games in learning can increase students' interest in learning mathematics.

Purpose of the study: This study aimed to describe the ability of creative thinking and student motivation and whether there is a relationship between creative thinking with student motivation to learn mathematics. Methodology: In this study using quantitative associative research types with correlational designs using 125 junior high school students obtained using purposive sampling techniques, data analysis in this study using descriptive and inferential statistics. Main Findings: In this study, there is a relationship between creative thinking skills and student motivation in mathematics, which is supported by creative thinking skills and motivation that shows good dominant results. Applications of this study: This research can be a consideration for teachers in teaching mathematics to develop students' creative thinking skills and foster student motivation in learning. Novelty/Originality of this study: In this study, the renewal is to see from two indicators possessed by creative thinking skills, namely sensitivity, and elaboration, as well as motivation that has a relationship with creative thinking.

This research serves as a reference for teachers to implement problem-based learning models on analytical thinking skills and science process skills in mathematics subjects. This research examines the differences and relationships between students' analytical thinking skills and science process skills with problem-based learning models in mathematics. The sample of this research consisted of 180 students. This research is a quantitative study with a questionnaire as the instrument. The obtained data were analyzed using the t-test and correlation test. The results showed a significant difference between analytical thinking skills and students' science process skills, especially on the indicators of Observation and Classification at SMPN 35 Batanghari and SMPN 8 Batanghari students who applied the problem-based learning model in mathematics. Furthermore, it was found that there was a relationship between analytical thinking skills and science process skills because students with analytical thinking skills possessed better science process skills in problem-based learning models in mathematics subjects.

The cognitive style has an important role in determining the characteristics of students on the conceptualizat ion. One o f the two types of cognitive styles are field independent (FI) and field dependent (FD). The purpose of this study was to identify the fo rm of conceptual misconceptions about limit and their causes. This type of research is a case study. The data was obtained through interviews based on the conceptual problem-solving tasks. Correspondents used in this study were fro m first-year college students (95 people) who were studied at Universitas Jambi. The results showed that (1) FI forms of students' misconceptions, namely: misconceptions about interpreting the concept of function limit and function conditions which have limits, such as: left limit and right limit. This problem occurred due to incomp lete reasoning and wrong intuition. The other result of this research was to obtain (2) FD forms of students' misconception, namely, (a) misconceptions about prerequisite material: drawing graphs of functions, misconceptions about determining the domain of a function, misconceptions about definit ions and forms of function notations, misconceptions about determining function values on function graphs (b) misconceptions about the concept of limits: misconceptions about interpreting the concept of limits in a function, the function requirements (left limit, right limit) and misconceptions about understanding the meaning which is close to the limit function (limit-x) approaching infinity.

This study aims to describe how the metacognitive learning approach (MLA) helped a university's mathematics lecturer enhance students' Mathematical Critical Thinking Skills (MCTS) through mathematics learning. It is an experimental study using a pretest–posttest control group design. The subjects of this study were the students of Mathematics education at a university. The instrument used was the MCTS test. The data were analyzed using ANOVA at the level of significant 0.01. The results of data analysis showed that the MCTS of students who learned with an MLA is better than students who study conventionally, and learning using an MLA has the same effectiveness in increasing the MCTS of students from the low, medium, and high-level subgroups.