Creativity and School Mathematics– 1
Running Head: CREATIVITY AND SCHOOL MATHEMATICS
Mathematical Creativity Among School Children
Gulsun KUGU
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
GATE 7355
Creativity Literature Review
Creativity and School Mathematics– 2
As a broad meaning, the concept of creativity has been expressed in not only social
sciences such as literature, art and music, and but also physical sciences such as mathematics,
computer sciences, biology and chemistry. Creativity catches scholars` attention so that they
certainly define the notion of creativity and there are a variety of interpretations. Because of
differences of definitions and characteristics of creativity, it is challenge to define creativity.
According to Poincaré, creative acts occurred not in the process of doing unless combinations
but in the period of useful combinations and small minority (Sriraman, 2004).
Creativity also plays vital roles in mathematics. Lack of the definition of mathematical
creativity has encouraged many of scholars in order to define it. To identify creative acts and
creative potential is a challenge (Mann, 2009). Most of researches on the identification of
creativity in mathematics focalize to make the development measuring creativity and to create
instruments for such measurements. Current instruments made the measurement and
