Effect of using some Enrichment Activities in Teaching Mathematics on the development of Creative Thinking Skills among the Gifted Sixth Grade Students at Public Elementary School in Makkah Almukaramah

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the effect of using some enrichment activities in teaching mathematics on the development of creative thinking skills just as (Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, Elaboration, Total creative thinking) among the Gifted Sixth Grade students at Public Elementary School students in Makkah Almukaramah. The study sample was comprised of (41) Gifted Sixth Grade students at Public Elementary School students in Makkah Almukaramah studying in the First Academic Term of 1429/1430H. These students were assigned to two groups: experimental (20) students, (which learned with the assistant of the Enrichment Activities) and control (21) students, (which learned with the assistant of the traditional Activities). The measuring instrument used in the study was Torrance test of Creative Thinking, and the testing of hypotheses was performed using the (T.test) analysis. The study’s results revealed in general that the experimental group’s students outperformed their counterparts in the control group in the mean scores of Post-creative thinking at all creative skills.