Keyword: «synectics»

The article deals with creativity - the tools to stimulate creative thinking, methods of creative thinking in the teaching of mathematics. The author emphasizes the need for new approaches to the study of mathematical disciplines, introduction of innovative technologies in the teaching of mathematics. According to the author, the use of creative tools to stimulate creative thinking of students of POO has a positive effect on learning and personal development.

This theme shows practical possibilities of forming interdisciplinary results of learning through the using methods of synectics on the lessons of natural-science cycle. Besides of the development of skills of making non-standard decisions in situations of uncertainty, the use of this method contributes to better assimilation of information, its consolidation in long-term memory, as well as associative thinking.