2021 Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Reports
2021
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Collaborative Creativity in Proving: Adapting a Measurement Tool for Group Use
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Creativity is central to mathematics and mathematics education. One hindrance to research in mathematical creativity is the complex nature of defining and measuring creativity. Some efforts have been made to study mathematical creativity at the K-12 level, but just recently researchers have begun exploring mathematical creativity at the undergraduate level. Proof is essential to an undergraduate mathematics education, and as university mathematics classrooms evolve to incorporate more active and collaborative learning, it is imperative to understand the relationship between collaboration and creativity in proving. This study seeks to apply the Creativity-In-Progress Rubric (CPR) on Proving (Savic et al., 2017) to two collaborative small-group proving episodes and to evaluate its ability to present a holistic image of a group’s creative proving process. Findings of this evaluation led to the three suggestions for future use of the CPR on Proving in collaborative settings.