A Study of Gender Differences in Mathematical Creativity

수학적 창의력에서의 성별 차이에 관한 연구 - 다답형 문항에 대한 반응을 중심으로 -

This study was designed for the purpose of finding some gender differences in the mathematical creative problem-solving ability. For this research, we selected two problems. One is "counting marbles" of algebra, and the other is "drawing figures" of geometry. And we examined and analyzed the written responses of the students with classifying the four categories; fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. These are the factors of the creativity. There were no significant gender differences in the fluency, flexibility, and originality in both problems. but girls got significantly higher scores than boys in elaboration. In conclusion, boys tried unusual and special responses but gave many incorrect and many similiar answers, whereas girls had low scores in high originality but gave less incorrect and less overlapping answers than boys did.swers than boys did.