In Selter’s article, Ferit’s story is really interesting. Even though he was not good at mathematics, he has creativity to solve the problems. A person, who has creativity to solve the problems, can be good in mathematics. This story reminds me of some teachers who always force their method for solving problems. This is very wrong strategy.
We, as teachers, should encourage students to be creative rather than forcing our methods on them. Creativity is accompanied by flexibility, adaptivity and strategy. As a teacher, we should guide the students to solve the problems at their own. The students should be taught how they can switch between different methods. This is not easy for a teacher to develop this kind of strategy in the students. In our daily routine, we can easily forget to develop these techniques in the students. However, we can find some time to give them some problems which force them to develop these characteristics.
The other interesting thing is that research on this topic is just started. Math is always considered as a tool to develop thinking. I think that thinking includes creative thinking. The other terms like adaiptivity are new to me. But this research caught my interest. This research does not give any data. I like to observe in my class rooms how many students work with method and how it affects their learning and mathematical thinking.
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