Exploring young students creativity: the effect of model eliciting activities

• Gilat, Talya ^[1] ; Amit, Miriam ^[1]
  1. [1] Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

     Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

     Israel

     
• Localización: PNA: Revista de investigación en didáctica de la matemática, ISSN-e 1887-3987, Vol. 8, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 51-59
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.30827/pna.v8i2.6118
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  • The aim of this paper is to show how engaging students in real-life mathematical situations can stimulate their mathematical creative thinking. We analyzed the mathematical modeling of two girls, aged 10 and 13 years, as they worked on an authentic task involving the selection of a track team. The girls displayed several modeling cycles that revealed their thinking processes, as well as cognitive and affective features that may serve as the foundation for a methodology that uses model-eliciting activities to promote the mathematical creative process.Exploración de la creatividad de jóvenes estudiantes: el efecto de actividades que suscitan modelosEl objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo involucrar a los estudiantes en situaciones matemáticas de la vida real puede estimular su pensamiento matemático creativo. Analizamos la modelización matemática de dos chicas, de 10 y 13 años, cuando trabajaban en una tarea auténtica que involucraba la selección de un equipo de atletismo. Las chicas mostraron varios ciclos de modelización que revelaron sus procesos de pensamiento, así como las características cognitivas y afectivas que pueden servir como fundamento para una metodología que usa actividades que suscitan modelos para promover los procesos matemáticos creativos.Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/29578

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