Creativity and Giftedness (eBook)

1. Introduction to interdisciplinary perspectives on creativity and giftedness (Roza Leikin and Bharath Sriraman).- Section 1: Perspectives on Creativity.- 2.Creativity, Imagination and Early Math Education (Maciej Karwowski Dorota Dziedziewicz).- 3. Assessment of Creativity in Undergraduate Mathematics: Using a Creativity-in-Progress Rubric on Proving (Milos Savic, Gulden Karakok, Gail Tang, Molly Stubblefield and Hussein El Turkey).- 4. Teacher’s views on modeling as a creative mathematical activity (Gudbjorg Palsdottir and Bharath Sriraman).- 5. The prominence of affect in creativity (Eric L. Mann and Scott A. Chamberlin).- 6. When mathematics meets reality: How much creative are math students? (Cristian Voica and Florence Mihaela Singer).- 7. Constraints, Competency and Creativity in the Classroom (Catrinel Haught and Patricia D. Stokes).- 8. Convergence in creativity development for mathematical capacity (Ai-Girl Tan and Bharath Sriraman).- 9. The origin of insight in mathematics (Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner).- 10. Creativity in Doubt: Toward Understanding What Drives Creativity in Learning (Ronald Beghetto and James B. Schreiber).- Section 2: Perspectives on giftedness.- 11. What is special in brain activity of mathematically gifted adolescents (Roza Leikin, Mark Leikin, Ilana Waissman).- 12. Psychological and Neuro-scientific Perspectives on Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness (David Cropley,  Martin Westwell and Florence Gabriel).- 13. What have we learned about giftedness and creativity? An overview of a five years journey (Demetra Pitta-Pantazi).- 14. The interplay between excellence in school mathematics and general giftedness: Focusing on mathematical creativity (Miriam Lev and Roza Leikin).- 15. Mathematically gifted education: Political perspective (Alexander Karp).- 16. New directions for research in creativity and giftedness: The case of mathematics (Bharath Sriraman and Roza Leikin).