Developing Critical Thinking Skills from Dispositions to Abilities: Mathematics Education from Early Childhood to High School

By Einav Aizikovitsh-Udi, Diana Cheng. 2015

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In light of the importance of developing critical thinking, and given the scarcity of research on critical thinking in mathematics education in the broader context of higher order thinking skills, we have carried out a research that examined how teaching strategies oriented towards developing higher-order thinking skills influenced students’ critical thinking abilities. The guiding rationale of the work was that such teaching can foster the students’ skills of and dispositions towards critical thinking. In this article, we discuss ways in which critical thinking can be incorporated in mathematics instruction. In particular, we highlight how content taught in the probability strand can intentionally be focused on the development of students’ critical thinking. We report results of a study demonstrating improvement in secondary mathematics students’ dispositions towards critical thinking and abilities to think critically.

Subfields: Education

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Citations in the corpus

• RICOSRE: A Learning Model to Develop Critical Thinking Skills for Students with Different Academic Abilities (2019, background): “Critical thinking skills belong to one of the basic and intellectual needs every individual has to meet (Aizikovitsh-Udi & Cheng, 2015).”
• Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations. (2019, background): “Evidence suggests that critical thinking is a skill that can be taught (3, 75, 98), and new resources to teach ehealth andmedia literacy are becoming increasingly available [for example, theNews Literacy Project (105) and the Center for Media Literacy’s MediaLit Kit (119)].”
• Students’ Critical Thinking Ability: Description Based on Academic Level and Gender (2016, background): “Aizikovitsh-Udi and Cheng (2015) state that critical thinking is a capability essential to contemporary life.”
• Developing Critical Thinking Skills of Students in Mathematics Learning (2015, background): “High level mathematics problems that involve thinking, analysis, synthesis can stimulate students' critical thinking skills (Krulik & Rudnick, 1995; Aizikovitsh & Cheng, 2015).”