KEMAMPUAN MENYELESAIKAN SOAL CERITA PADA MATA KULIAH GEOMETRI ANALITIK RUANG MAHASISWA PENDIDIKAN MATEMATIKA UNIVERSITAS MUSLIM MAROS

Verbal skills, logical mathematic skills, visual skills, and intrapersonal skills needed for students to complete the story on the subject matter of geometry, that multiple intellegence has influences on students ability to solve story questions on geometry subject. This research aimed to examine and describe the possitive influence of linguistics verbal intellegence, logical mathematics intellegence, and spatial visual intellegnce of students both directly and indirectly through intrapersonal intellegence toward the ability to solve story questions on the subject of geometry. This was a causality ex-post study. Population of this research was grade X students at public senior high school of academy year 2012/2013. Samples were selected by employing equal size stratified random sampling technique and obtained 211 students. The instruments used in the study were: (1) verbal linguistic intelligence tests, (2) logical-mathematical intelligence tests, (3) visual-spatial intelligence tests, (4) intrapersonal intelligence scale, (5) the subject of the story about the test geometry. Data were then analyzed with descriptive statistics and the analysis paths. The results showed that: (1) Intelligence verbal linguistic positive effect on students' ability to solve problems on the subject of geometry story either directly or indirectly through intrapersonal intelligence. (2) Intelligence mathematical logic direct positive effect on students' ability to complete the story on the subject matter of geometry, but indirectly, through the intelligence intrapersonal logical mathematical intelligence negatively affect the ability to finish the story the subject matter of geometry. (3) Intelligence visual spatial direct positive effect on students' ability to complete the story on the subject matter of geometry, but indirectly, through the intelligence intrapersonal logical mathematical intelligence negatively affect the ability to finish the story the subject matter of geometry. From these results, it can be concluded that the contribution of intervening variables had a negative impact on the two exogen variables, namely mathematical logic intelligence, and visual-spatial intelligence of the endogen variables. Key words: verbal skills, logical mathematic skills, visual skills, and intrapersonal skills, ability to solve story questions on the subject of geometry