Implementation of Problem-Based Learning in terms of Student Mathematical Creative Thinking

Abstract

One of the goals of mathematics teaching is that students have the ability to think creatively. The ability to think creatively is one of the important factors of learning goals for giving knowledge solely to students will not be much help in everyday life, so learning should be able to develop the attitudes and abilities of students that can help to deal with problems in the future creatively. Creative thinking is a thought process that is able to provide ideas or different ideas that can then be transformed into new knowledge and the answers you need. “Think of creative or divergent thinking is to provide a variety of possible answers based on information supplied by the emphasis on the diversity of answers and suitability”. There are four characteristics of creative thinking, namely: fluency (fluency, lose a lot of ideas), flexibility (flexibility, change perspectives with ease), originality (originality, composing something new), and elaboration (elaboration, another idea developed from an idea). Creative thinking is the focus of observation. Therefore, we need a model of learning appropriate to enhance the creative thinking of students is a model Problem-Based Learning (PBL).