PROFIL SISWA SMP DALAM PEMECAHAN MASALAH YANG BERKAITAN DENGAN LITERASI MATEMATIS DITINJAU DARI ADVERSITY QUOTIENT (AQ)

Abstract

Abstract: This research aims to describe the profile of junior high school students with climber’s, camper’s, and quitter’s type in problem solving from related with mathematics literacy using Polya steps. This research was a qualitative descriptive research. The subjects of this research were taken by using a combined technique of stratified sampling and Snowball sampling. The subjects of this research were seven 9^th grade students of SMP Negeri 6 Surakarta regency, which consisted of three students with climber’s type, two students with camper’s type, and two students with quitters’s type. The data were collected through questionnaire and task-based interview technique on subject matter of space and shape mathematics literacy third level. The data were analyzed using a Miles and Huberman’s concept, that was data reduction, presentation, and conclusion. The results of this research are as follows: (1) climber’s students in understanding the problem, devising a plan, carrying out the plan, and looking back the answer aspects have reached all aspects needed, those are reasoning, argumentation, communication, modelling, connection, and representation aspect; (2) camper’s students in understanding the problem, devising a plan, and looking back the answer aspects have reached all aspects, those are reasoning, argumentation, communication, modelling, connection, and representation aspect, but in carrying out the plan, they have only reached reasoning, argumentation, communication, modelling and connection aspects, not representation aspect; (3) quitter’s students understanding the problem and looking back the answer aspects have reached all aspects, those are reasoning, argumentation, communication, modelling, connection, and representation aspect, but in devising a plan, they have only reached communication, modelling, and connection aspects, not reasoning, argumentation, and representation aspect. Whereas in carrying out the plan, they have only reached reasoning, argumentation, communication, modelling and connection aspects, not representation aspect.

Keywords: Profile, problem solving, mathematics literacy, Polya’s steps, Adversity Quotiont (AQ)