Creative thinking is an activity mental that connects one ide to another idea to find various solutions or new ideas in solving problems. The product of creative thinking is creativity. Mathematics anxiety is a condition experienced by students in the form of feelings of fear and anxiety when faced with mathematical problems. There is a strong negative correlation between creative thinking and mathematics anxiety. This research aims to describe the profile of students’ creativity in solving problems based on mathematics anxiety. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. Data analysis in this research consisted of reducing questionnaire and test result data, data display, and conclusion drawing. The topic used for the test is a number pattern. The subjects of this research consisted of one student with the highest level of creative thinking ability at each level of mathematics anxiety. The results showed that there were differences in creativity between students with high and low mathematics anxiety. Students with high mathematics anxiety can only show fluency, while students with low mathematics anxiety can show the all components of creativity consisted of fluency, novelty, and flexibility.
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