Vina Amilia Suganda Makenun, Tatang Herman, Zutri Parwines, Rosiana Mufliva
Preparing prospective teachers with good mathematical problem-solving skills, low levels of math anxiety, and high productive struggle can create a generation of educators who are proficient in mathematical content and can inspire and guide students to overcome mathematical challenges with confidence and perseverance. This study aims to determine the relationship between the productive struggle in mathematics and math anxiety in terms of the mathematical problem-solving ability of prospective elementary school teachers. This study used a quantitative research design. The sampling technique used was random sampling, with the number of samples in this study totaling 20 prospective elementary school teachers, namely PGSD students. Based on the results and discussion, the results of SPSS multiple regression output show that the sig value of 0.312 is more than 0.05 (α), so there is no significant relationship between the level of productive struggle and math anxiety in terms of the mathematical problem-solving ability of prospective teachers in elementary schools. From these results, it is obtained that there is no direct or not always a linear relationship between productive struggle and math anxiety in terms of mathematical problem-solving ability. This result shows that each factor of productive struggle, anxiety, and problem-solving works distinctively and can interact differently in each individual. The research results obtained in this study may be different if this study involves a larger research sample. Then, affective and cognitive aspects other than the aspects in this study need to be considered. © 2025 Author(s).
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
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