Making Meaning of Creativity and Mathematics Teaching
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Creativity and innovation are important 21st-century skills, and mathematics education contributes to the development of these skills. However, it is far from clear how we as mathematics educators should respond to the need to contribute to our students’ development of creativity and innovation. One reason is that it is not clear what relation such creative and innovative skills have to mathematics, and how we should teach them. In this paper, I review different conceptions of creativity in mathematics education and investigate what mathematical innovation and creativity “are” in the mathematical classroom. I show how different conceptions of mathematical innovation and creativity dominate different parts of the mathematics education literature, and explain how these differences can be viewed as framing mathematical creativity toward different domains.
Author: Morten Misfeldt
Institution: Aalborg University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1489553870