Creative thinking is an important part in learning mathematics. However, some Mathematics Education students have low creative thinking skills, especially in the proof process in the Real Analysis course. Use the Problem Posing approach to determine the quality of students’ creative thinking abilities in the Real Analysis course. Therefore this study aims to describe the potential of students as designers, in creative thinking in the proof of mathematics. This research is a qualitative research category, with a perspective-constructive approach. A total of 61 sixth semester students take Real analysis courses in the 2019/2020 Academic Year as research subjects. The student studied in two heterogeneous mathematics education classes, from one urban tertiary institution participating in this study. By using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation can be obtained this research information. The results obtained by the problem posing condition can find a greater difference than the equivalent conditions, about two-thirds of students are able to make in some cases the original equivalent, as well as the relationship between student achievement on Sequences and Series material with originality found at the middle level. This type of research has the potential for lecturers and students to assess the level of student understanding of certain mathematical topics, concepts, or procedures.
Mathematical literacy is the ability of individuals to formulate, use, and interpret mathematics in various contexts. NCTM has formulated 5 competencies in mathematics learning, namely mathematical problem solving, mathematical communication, mathematical reasoning, mathematical connection, and mathematical representation. These five abilities are included in mathematics literacy abilities and must be possessed by all students. High-level thinking is a thought activity that includes aspects of problem solving, critical, creative, metacognitive to achieve certain goals, which in the domain of Bloom’s Taxonomy conducts the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of a problem. The ability of mathematical literacy will encourage students to be able to think at a high level because in mathematics literacy students will be required to use all critical and creative thinking to be able to formulate and interpret mathematics in various contexts so that the highest level of mathematical skills (level 6) can be achieved.
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