A model of learning the online course “Creative Thinking through Learning Elementary Maths”
Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The article considers the development of the online educational model “Creative Thinking through Learning Elementary Maths” and the results of the effciency to implement this course for students of the specialization “Mathematics” while learning Elementary Mathematics. The research represents the development of learning materials for the online course posted in free access on the educational platform “Higher School Mathematics Teacher”. The course components (theoretical, practical, and feedback) are focused on the organization of motivated and consistent students’ activity; open and integrative Rich tasks of three levels of complexity. The course participants’ activity, focused on the recognition, classification, solution, creation of Rich tasks, encourages the formation of the main components of creative thinking that include a problem statement, fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. The first version of the course materials was improved following course users’ wishes, and then the effciency of online course education was checked using an experiment. The analysis of results of the experiment allows concluding about the effciency of the developed model of learning an online course.
Institutions: Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Technical University "Metinvest Polytechnic" LLC, Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture - Kramatorsk, Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4283333253