Support of Pupil's Creative Thinking in Mathematical Education

AbstractCreativity is an essential feature of personality that is used in everyday life. It allows us to be flexible when dealing with real life situations. Mathematical education should be seen as one of opportunities for creativity development, although creativity is not traditionally associated with maths. One of the education goals at any school level should be to encourage pupils to think creatively, think logically and to be able to solve problems. We describe activities suitable for different school levels in this paper. We use brainstorming in mathematical education. When creating problems we cooperated with student in the age of 13 and 14. We asked them to look for “any geometry” and take photos of interesting objects as they walk at the playground. Next, students create ideas for geometrical tasks based on taken photos. Rich collection of collected photos represents the base for the creation of mathematical problems, without specific measures related to geometrical objects. These open problems could be completed and solved by students