Each year, to maintain my certification in gifted education in Texas, I am required to get six hours of training. This week, I attended a training with a focus on creativity. The team that made the presentation offered several good ideas for infusing creativity in curriculum.
Here are some ideas that can be adapted to math class:
Idea One: Forced association with sketching and writing:
Idea Two: Fluency/Flexibility Exercise:
When asking students to brainstorm fluency lists, give them a short time (maybe 2 minutes). Then have students draw a line and do it again.
After they create their category lists, have students share their various categories. How are the categories different?
Idea Three: Thunks
Idea Four: 6 degrees of separation
The presenters shared other ideas ... including synectics and "which one doesn't belong!" They also share a number of excellent motivational videos. I hope to review them to see if any of them would work with students.
I look forward to infusing creative thinking in my math class - opportunities for students to flex their divergent thinking.