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Creativity in Teaching Mathematics

Thinking about the future of education at all levels, we need to ask ourselves what qualities students need to be encouraged and how to prepare them for the challenges that tomorrow brings. Creativity has certainly been highlighted as one of the most important factors to be encouraged during the teaching process. Creative teaching methods motivate students to think, create freely and actively participate, and consequently create a pleasant teaching climate. This is also a feature of today's understanding of modern teaching and active learning. The results of some researchers point out that creativity in teaching is still not given as much importance as it should be, especially in the context of teaching mathematics, which is the basis of other scientific fields. Teaching media represent a significant contribution to raising the quality of teaching, and textual media, as the oldest among them, are still indispensable in classroom textbooks. In this context, the tasks that appear in them are especially important, and the focus of this paper are open-ended tasks that appear in textbooks in mathematics. Previous research on this issue has not gone in a direction conducive to creativity. The aim of this paper is to show the importance of creativity in teaching and the potential of open-ended tasks in response to the demand to encourage creativity in mathematics teaching.

Creativity, Mathematics, Teaching, Open-ended tasks

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