Acta Mathematica Nitriensia Vol. 1, No. 1, 2015

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Mette Andresen:	Students' Creativity in Problem Solving
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Abstract: This article reports results from a research project carried out in upper secondary school in collaboration with eight Norwegian mathematics teachers. The project concentrated on the development of students' inquiry, creativity and intellectual independence while they were working in a problem solving setting in mathematics classes. The teachers prepared and conducted teaching experiments for the inquiry of the students' strategies. Two episodes of creativity will be presented and discussed in thearticle based on excerpts from the data. Works of Schoenfeld, Polya, Johan Lithner and A.A. diSessa form the theoretical basis for the project.

Keywords: Investigation and problem solving, meta representational competence, mathematical creativity, mathematically founded reasoning.

Classification: C30, D40, D50, D20

Pages: 1 – 10

DOI: 10.17846/AMN.2015.1.1.1-10

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