Students' Mathematical Connection Based on Levels of Mathematical Abilities: Qualitative Study in SLETV

Abstract: This research aims to illustrate the way for stu-dents to apply mathematical concepts to the given problem, for example, System of Linear Equations with Two Variables (SLETV). There were three students of SMP Negeri 3 Watansoppeng getting engaged to be research subject. There were two instruments used in this research which are math ability test and mathematical connection capability test. The results of this study showed that the ability tests of mathematics, three stu-dents classified into the ability of higher, middle and lower. With problem of SLETV given, subject with a high level of mathemati-cal ability was able to connect with both the mathematical con-cept known by the given problem, compared with students who have other ability in mathematical connections. In addition, the ability of mathematical connections affects the answers given by the subject, i.e. there were the right answer and wrong answer, and no response at all