Cultivating divergent thinking in mathematics through an open-ended approach

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-61

  Kwon, Oh Nam ^a   Park, Jung Sook ^a   Park, Jee Hyun ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Divergent thinking; Mathematical creativity; Open ended approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847138965     PISSN: 15981037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03036784     Document Type: Article

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