Using Thinking to Promote Creativity

Through the use of specific creativity strategies, such as metaphorical and analogical thinking, we can help our students develop thinking skills that are instrumental to the creative process. [...]if you are teaching students about mathematical equations with the goal of understanding that equations follow certain patterns, you could explore with students how arithmetic patterns in math are similar or different from those of a spider web. By asking them to explore, more abstractly, the intricacies of how and why both people and animals change their location of place, why they change those places, and what the effects of changing those places might be, they deepen their understanding of those topics, allowing them to better retain that information for future use.