“…The contextual approach has several important components, namely constructivism, modelling, inquiry, questioning, learning society, authentic judgement, and reflection (Ramdani, 2018). The use of a contextual approach is a suitable approach in improving students' mathematical connection ability because it makes students get mathematical concepts independently so that they can understand the usefulness and origin of the concepts they find (Simbolon, 2019;Sodik et al, 2019;Yuliana & Widyasari, 2022). This is in line with the research of Fitriana and Putri (2020) which says that a contextual approach will improve students' mathematical connection ability.…”