CREATIVITY IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS.

Creativity, attitudes, and conceptions of teachers regarding creativity in teaching mathematics have been examined in this study. The instrument used is a questionnaire consisting of three groups of questions. The first group of questions includes questions to gather general information about the teachers, while the second and third groups of questions include questions to gather data about teachers' attitudes and conceptions of creativity in teaching mathematics. The questionnaire was completed by 115 class and Maths teachers. After data analysis, the findings indicate that the majority of teachers have knowledge about creativity and believe that teachers are responsible for developing students' creativity. From the proven hypotheses of this paper, we can conclude that if the teachers know creativity, then they will teach the students to be creative, which they will further develop creativity, as a requirement of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]