Profile of Students' Errors in Mathematical Proof Process Viewed from Adversity Quotient (AQ)

Abstract: Mathematical proof is an important aspect in mathematics,especially in analysis. An error in the mathematical proofconstruction process often occurs. This study aims to analyze thestudents’ errors in producing proof. Each of the categories ofstudents’ Adversity Quotient (AQ) is identified related to the type ofstudents’ error. The type of students’ errors used according to
Newmann’s Error Analysis. This study used a qualitative approach.This study was conducted to 25 students who were taking real
analysis course. Documentation, test, and interview were used to
gather the data. Analyzing the students’ test result and then
interviewing them for each AQ category were done for the analysis
process. The results show that there are 48% climber students, 52%
camper students, and no one is identified as a quitter student. Climber
students tend to make some proving error such as transformation
error, process skill error, and encoding error while camper students
make the comprehension error, transformation error, process skill
error, and encoding error when they are producing proof.