Problem Solving & Creativity

What is the most important thing a teacher can do to help students transfer problem solving strategies from one domain to another domain?

• to help student look at the surface structure of the problems

• to help student ignore knowledge of the area and focus on heuristics

• to help the students to see how the problems resemble each other

• to help students avoid the temptation to be bothered by knowledge base that will mislead them

A teacher tells her students to generate multiple solutions to a problem that was presented in class. She is asking her students to engage in

• convergent thinking

• divergent thinking

• Fostering a Community of Learners

• Productive Thinking Program

A consequence in students being creative in the classroom is that teachers may label them as...

• leaders

• compliant

• nonconformists

• intelligent

In a department meeting after school, a math teacher suggests that the group starts to come up with as many solutions to the problem being discussed. He says that each solution gets written down and solutions are not judged. He is suggesting the strategy known as...

• exogenous constructivism

• reframing

• brainstorming

• means-end analysis

“When I try to solve a problem, I often work backwards from what I don’t know to what I do know.” This best describes a(n)...

• elementary student

• developing learner

• expert

• novice

Heuristics are examples of

• mental structures used to organize new information

• questions that provoke deep thought

• general strategies

• specific strategies

A person is described as having large a knowledge base, rapid recognition, and good reasoning. This person is a(n)...

• novice

• manager

• expert

• developing learner

A teacher is seeing her students becoming frustrated as they are working on a project that requires them to creatively solve problems. She says that they should try to change how they are looking at the problem. She is encouraging her students to engage in

• reframing

• brainstorming

• exogenous constructivism

• means-end analysis

Think of any many uses for a paper clip. This is called _______ creativity

• figural

• substitution

• convergent

• verbal

Creativity is not limited just one domain. This means that creativity can be described as

• reciprocating

• variable

• domain-neutral

• domain-general