A Comparative Analysis of Indonesian and Singaporean Mathematics Textbooks from the Perspective of Mathematical Creativity: A Case Statistics and Probability

Mathematical creativity is very important in this 21^st century competition. This skill can be taught and facilitated through a supported textbook. There is a relationship between textbooks used and mathematics achievement of the students. To what extent students' creative thinking can be seen in the tasks of the textbooks. This study compared the mathematical creativity for the topic of probability in Junior High School (JHS) Indonesian and Singaporean mathematics textbooks. Textbooks will be analyzed from the perspectives of originality, fluency, flexibility, and elaboration aspects. Indonesian mathematics textbooks and Singaporean mathematics textbooks both facilitate mathematical creativity. Indonesian textbooks can facilitate three of four aspect creativity and Singaporean mathematics textbooks two of four aspect creativity. There are many tasks that supported more than one aspect of mathematical creativity but all mathematics textbook were analyzed doesn't support fluency aspect. Singaporean textbook has 18% task that facilitated mathematical creativity and Indonesian mathematics textbook has 10%. The finding showed that Singaporean textbooks more facilitate thinking of students' mathematical creativity.