The Impact of Using Conceptual Maps on the Development of Creative Thinking of Students

Abstract

The topic of this study will be the impact of using concept maps on the development of creative thinking of students. This study needs to be conducted because of the stimulation to examine the aspects of incorporating concept maps in teaching mathematics, as well as show the effect on the creativity of students. This paper will demonstrate the ways and techniques of concept mapping in teaching mathematics to help in motivating students for innovation and creativity inspired and influenced by the comprehensive meaningful learning.Concept maps serve the education process in introducing measurement tools to assess learners and access their issues in the knowledge representation and conceptualization. Concept maps by graph of nodes and relationships can represent the concepts for any given domain as well as to measure the declarative knowledge of individuals. Concept mapping is beneficial tool in teaching mathematics. The results showed the usefulness if incorporating concept map in teaching mathematics and its positive effect on creativity of students.

Keywords: Mathematics teaching, concept maps, concept mapping, teaching methods, creative thinking