Increasing the Fluid Intelligence and Creative Mind of Elementary School Students: The Effect of Teaching Math Skills I Math

Abstract

Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of teaching math skills on increasing the fluid intelligence and creative mind of first grade students.Methodology: The current research was a semi-experimental research with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The research population included the students of the first elementary schools in the 6th district of Tehran in the academic year of 2001-2002. Using the available sampling method, 28 students of the studied community were selected and randomly replaced into two experimental groups (14 people with math skills training package) and a control group (14 people). The experimental group received math skills training during 10 sessions of 80 minutes. To collect data, mathematical skills training package and test of fluid intelligence (Saadati Shamir and Zahtakesh, 1401) and creative mind (Saadati Shamir, 1400) were used.Findings: The results of covariance analysis showed that the math skills training package increased fluid intelligence and creative mind in 7-9 year old students. Teaching math skills to primary school students increased perception, reasoning, attention, memory and information processing, as well as fluency, prioritization, focus, persistence and risk-taking in them.Conclusion: Students who receive more accurate math skills training gain more and more regular perception, reasoning, attention, memory and information processing skills and show higher cognitive and academic skills than their peers and in skills such as Shape recognition, shape recognition from context, visual and auditory attention, visual reasoning, visual, computational, information processing, numerical, semantic and visual sequence and creative mind including fluidity, prioritization, focus, perseverance and risk taking performed better.