WorksheetsProblem Solving & Creativity
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
