No Author Year Journal Title Teaching Approach

1 Roza Leikin • Rena 2013 ZDM Teachers’ views on

Subotnik • Mathematics creativity in
Demetra Pitta- Education mathematics
Pantazi • Florence education: an
Mihaela Singer •
international survey
Ildiko Pelczer

2 Michal Tabach 2017 ZDM Algebraic procedures

Alex Friedlander Mathematics and creative thinking
Education
 Area Knowledge Domain Period Level

Teaching Approximately 1,100

teachers from six
countries (Cyprus, India,
Israel, Latvia, Mexico,
and Romania)

Algebraic
Methodology Results

Questionnaire For example, attention provided to creativity in mathematics

and teacher training directed to excellence in mathematics
led teachers from Romania to agree more strongly than
teachers from other countries with the majority of ques-
tionnaire items that describe the characteristics of mathe-
matically creative students and teachers as well as of a
creative person in general.
No Author Year Journal Title
1 Roza Leikin • Rena 2013 ZDM Teachers’ views on
Subotnik • Mathematics creativity in
Demetra Pitta- Education mathematics education:
Pantazi • Florence an international survey
Mihaela Singer •
Ildiko Pelczer

2 Michal Tabach 2017 ZDM Algebraic procedures

Alex Friedlander Mathematics and creative thinking
Education
 Definition
1) creativity can be considered a mental process involving the
generation of new ideas or concepts, or the result of new associations between existing ideas or concepts.
2) Divergent thinking involves creative generation of multiple answers or multiple solution strat- egies to a
problem.

1) Leikin’s model (2009), originality is based on the level of conventionality and the insight of a problem’s
solution method, flexibility is associated with the ability to change ideas and to produce a variety of solution
methods, and fluency is evaluated according to the number of non-repeating solution methods of the
problem at hand.
No Author Year Journal Title
1 Roza Leikin • Rena 2013 ZDM Teachers’ views on
Subotnik • Mathematics creativity in
Demetra Pitta- Education mathematics education:
Pantazi • Florence an international survey
Mihaela Singer •
Ildiko Pelczer

2 Michal Tabach 2017 ZDM Algebraic procedures

Alex Friedlander Mathematics and creative thinking
Education
 Research Question/Research Objectives

RO - to explore the potential of involving students as designers, engaging in creative

mathematical thinking in the context of equivalent algebraic expressions.
 NO
2
 WHY CT
1) students be involved in problem solving activities that require “thinking and creativity”- more advanced thinking str
needed in solving non-routine problems.
No Author Year Journal Title
1 Roza Leikin • Rena 2013 ZDM Teachers’ views on
Subotnik • Mathematics creativity in
Demetra Pitta- Education mathematics education:
Pantazi • Florence an international survey
Mihaela Singer •
Ildiko Pelczer
 PROCESS
1) Hadamard (1954) theorized that mathematicians’ creative processes follow the four-
stage Gestalt model of preparation–incubation–illumination–verification