Enhancing pre-service teachers' mathematical creativity via STEM PBL: a mixed-methods study.
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| Title: | Enhancing pre-service teachers' mathematical creativity via STEM PBL: a mixed-methods study. |
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| Authors: | Bicer, Ali1 (AUTHOR) alibicer@tamu.edu, Gooden, Micayla1 (AUTHOR), Sanders, Miriam2 (AUTHOR), Perihan, Celal3 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Research in Mathematics Education. Aug2025, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p244-268. 25p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Creative thinking, *Student teachers, *Mixed methods research, *Contextual learning, *Interdisciplinary education, *Problem solving, Mathematics |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to investigate how mathematics-emphasised STEM PBL lessons develop pre-service teachers' creative thinking skills in mathematics. A sequential mixed-methods study was applied to deeply understand the results from the quantitative part of the study through qualitative analysis. While pre-service teachers' creative thinking skills in mathematics were measured through problem-posing tasks, a semi-structured interview was conducted to reveal the features of STEM PBL instruction influencing their creative thinking. The results revealed that although pre-service teachers did not increase their fluency scores of mathematical creativity after receiving STEM PBL intervention, they increased their flexibility and originality scores of mathematical creativity. The associated Hedge's g for the overall increase in mathematical creativity from pre- to post-test was 0.42. During interviews, pre-service teachers attributed this increase to the ten features of STEM PBL. This study implies that mathematics can be used as a main goal in the STEM PBL context. This may enable pre-service teachers to understand not only the utility but also the beauty of mathematics in an interdisciplinary context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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