Creative Thinking Through Mathematics A Student's Guide to Mathematical Explorations

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This book engages students in interactive explorations that encourage creative thinking in their approaches to mathematics. Organized around five themes the fifteen quests invite students to notice wonder and draw upon their mathematical reasoning as they connect mathematics to other disciplines and everyday situations. The quests foster students’ creativity by posing open-ended questions encouraging reflection inviting playfulness and curiosity and connecting to research-based traits of creativity. The authors broaden the notion of what it means to be a mathematical thinker provide access to mathematics through creative thinking and celebrate the idea that everyone has the capacity to expl…