Fostering critical and creative thinking - mathematics#
See also: teaching-mathematics
7 Methods#
- Encourage students to figure out the answers, rather than telling them.
- Move from stuffing head with knowledge and allow students to discover -- a balance?
- Tasks about mathematical reasoning produce more lightbulb moments
- Generate examples, analyse and notice patterns - look for similarities/differences/how to test
- Given the opportunity for students to discover
- Foster collaboration and communication through group tasks and teacher prompts
- Use "convince me" as challenging prompt
- Like it or live it: it's part of the curriculum
- Linking creativity/critical thinking with maths
- Creativity - notice relationships between common properties and create rules/conjectures to test
- Crticial thinking - testing these ideas required to convince others, justify
- A rubric to help teachers assess three key areas
- Brief discussion of a three item rubric: analysing, generalising, justifying
- Problem-solving and reasoning are two different things
- Creativity == interpret the problem and make choices about a solution
- Critically - when justifying an interpretation fo the problem and evaluation of the solution
- Creative and critical thinking are fundamental skills for the future
- Normal creativity justification - in Maths, start by teaching problem solving and reasoning