Abstract: An intervention program used in elementary teacher education in Slovenia is presented. Program is based on preserves teachers' field experience with mathematically promising students. Evaluation from three viewpoints (students' general creative abilities, students' mathematical achievements and preserves teachers' change in beliefs and conceptions concerning teaching and learning) has been conducted. Overall results speak in favour of presented approach. Additionally results support the claim that objectively scored free word associative experiment can be used to assist a classroom teacher in the identification of creative mathematically promising students.Keywords: education, mathematics, mathematics lessons, promising students, teacher education, creativity quotient, changesPublished: 07.06.2012; Views: 1345; Downloads: 30 Link to full text
