Teaching 5th-graders Geometry and Measurement content towards developing creative thinking

Thi Truc Minh Nguyen1,
1 Faculty of Primary - Preschool Education, School of Education, Dong Thap University, Cao Lanh 870000, Vietnam

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Developing students’ creative thinking is to incorporating creative-thinking characteristics into teaching activities. That means converting from psychological activities into educational activities. The article clarifies the concept and characteristics of creative thinking, expressions of creative thinking of 5th graders in learning Geometry and Measurement content, thereby proposing procedure of designing teaching activities related to this content towards developing 5th-graders’ creative thinking.

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