TY - JOUR
T1 - School mathematics and creativity at the elementary and middle-grade levels
T2 - How are they related?
AU - Tabach, Michal
AU - Friedlander, Alex
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - In this study, we evaluated students' creativity, as expressed in the solution methods of three problems for groups of students in different grades. Posing the same problems to students of similar (advanced) mathematical abilities in different grades allowed us to look for possible connections between creativity and mathematical knowledge. The findings indicate that at the elementary school level, the number of solution methods and creativity scores increased with age. The collective methods space of the eighth graders seemed to narrow almost exclusively to algebraic methods, but the increase in the number of solutions was renewed in the ninth grade.
AB - In this study, we evaluated students' creativity, as expressed in the solution methods of three problems for groups of students in different grades. Posing the same problems to students of similar (advanced) mathematical abilities in different grades allowed us to look for possible connections between creativity and mathematical knowledge. The findings indicate that at the elementary school level, the number of solution methods and creativity scores increased with age. The collective methods space of the eighth graders seemed to narrow almost exclusively to algebraic methods, but the increase in the number of solutions was renewed in the ninth grade.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11858-012-0471-5
DO - 10.1007/s11858-012-0471-5
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AN - SCOPUS:84892859580
SN - 1863-9690
VL - 45
SP - 227
EP - 238
JO - ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education
JF - ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education
IS - 2
ER -