การพัฒนาความคิดสร้างสรรค์ทางคณิตศาสตร์ของนักเรียนชั้นประถมศึกษาปีที่ 1 โดยใช้วิธีการแบบเปิด The Development of Grade 1 Students’ Mathematical Creative Thinking Using Open Approach

Abstract

                The purposes of this research were the development of grade 1 students’ mathematical creative thinking using open approach. This qualitative research made use of protocol analysis and analytic description in describing changes made by students. The quantitative research methodology was also adopted to analyze students’ mathematical creative thinking. The target group of this study are 38 Grade 1 students of Ban Pa Klok School under supervision of Phuket Primary Education Service Area Office and 30 Grade 1 students Uttarakij School under Krabi Primary Education Service Area Office in the 2017 academic year. Both qualitative data, including student’s written works, interview protocols, photos, and field records by the researcher and quantitative data, including data from the questionnaires, mathematical creativity assessment of Saito (2008).

          The research findings revealed that: the open approach method of teaching improved students’ mathematical creative thinking, which could be seen from the fact that: the students dared to think differently and variously, could solve problems on their own, felt more comfortable expressing their opinions, spoke louder, had more self-confidence, dared to speak in front of the class, were more enthusiastic to participate in classroom activities, and their scores in all components of mathematical creative thinking improved from those before introduction of the open approach.