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This research is motivated by the students'poorly mathematical connection ability, more teacher-centered learning. The purpose of this study was to find out whether the mathematical connection ability of students who took part in the learning with the contextual approach was better than the students' mathematical connection ability with the conventional approach in class VII Of Junior High School 1 Banuhampu. The type of this research used is experimental. In the experimental class the teaching and learning process is carried out by applying the contextual learning approach while the control class uses conventional learning. Based on the results of data analysis obtained = 2.45> = 1.67 so that the results of the study show that the mathematical connection ability of students who follow learning with a contextual approach is better than the students' mathematical connection ability with conventional approaches in class VII Of Junior High School 1 Banuhampu