Efektivitas Penggunaan Strategi Means-Ends Analisis Terhadap Kemampuan Pemecahan Masalah Matematika Siswa

This study aims to determine the effect of the use of Means-Ends Analysis strategy on students' mathematical problem solving ability compared to the use of Polya's version of problem solving strategy and to determine the difference between the mathematical problem solving ability of students whose learning uses Means-Ends Analysis strategy and uses Polya's version of learning strategy. This study used a quantitative research approach with the research subjects of seventh grade students at SMPN Satap Palea. The research was conducted using instruments in the form of post-test questions, student response questionnaires. The conclusion of the research results is that there is an effect of student responses to the application of the Means-Ends Analysis learning model in a very good category, this is indicated by a percentage of 90%. While the application of the Polya version of the learning model is categorized as sufficient, this is indicated by a percentage of 73.33%. There is a difference in improving the ability of students who use the Means-Ends Analysis strategy higher than the polya version of the problem solving strategy.