The Investigation of the Creative Thinking Tendency of Prospective Mathematics Teachers in Terms of Different Variables

Abstract

New ideas and inventions are needed in the globalizing world in order that societies can be survived. To achieve this, there is a need for teachers and prospective mathematics teachers who will guide these students, who have creative ideas, make new inventions and generate new ideas in the educational environment where individuals are educated. Creative thinking skills should be used at the highest level in order to achieve a more permanent learning and ensure interdisciplinary transition. Creativity is defined as sensitivity emerging against problems. For this reason, importance of the noteworthy that opportunities should be given prospective mathematics teachers to develop creative thinking skills and have more time for designing creative products. Although each individual has creative thinking skills, it is very important to determine how using tendency of creative thinking skills and factors that will activate this tendency do change in accordance with different variables. So it was aimed to determine the level of creative thinking tendencies of prospective mathematics teachers and examine this level in terms of different variables. Marmara Creative Thinking Tendency Scale were applied to prospective mathematics teachers. According to the results obtained, it was declared that the creative thinking tendencies of the prospective mathematics teachers were in the group consisting of the "good" range in the total score section.