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Essay / Creative and Critical Thinking - 1256
Knowledge is generated by critical and creative thinking. Creative thinking is something new or original created with value. Critical thinking is a type of thinking that questions assumptions and validates or invalidates a current belief or something that was previously true. Knowledge is created through the culmination of generally accepted assumptions and creativity. How do you separate general assumptions and creativity? These two types of thinking can be easily separated with respect to concrete or realistic ideas versus abstract or original ideas. However, to generate new acceptable knowledge, critical thinking and creative thinking must interact together. Challenging established beliefs with the creation of new, unorthodox ideas will expose knowledge most beneficial to the world. Mathematics can be concrete and use reason as a way of knowing. These are concepts learned with a repetitive procedure. Critical thinking is a type of reasoning that uses logic that will never deviate. The first mathematical concepts taught in schools are believed to be concrete and have fixed steps and formulas for solving problems. Just think about the steps taught previously and accept them as true. Concepts can only be accepted as true by using the skills necessary to process and generate information and beliefs. Using skills as an “exercise” without meaning or understanding, however, is not critical thinking. It is always believed that the area of a right triangle is equal to half the base times the height. Reasoning can be used through drawing a grid to prove that this formula is true. Therefore, mathematics uses critical thinking as a means of skills known to guide behavior based on intellectual engagement... middle of article ...... been generated over time through technological developments, scientific progress as well as progress in mathematics and the arts. Architecture and engineering integrate mathematics and the arts by designing buildings or constructing bridges using creative and critical thinking. Another example is the infographic related to incorporating math and the arts. This knowledge is generated over time through technological developments, pushing new boundaries and expanding old ideas. Critical thinking and creative thinking are necessary to generate new knowledge. em/vol1nr1/marcut/marcut.pdfhttp://forumonpublicpolicy.com/spring2010.vol2010/spring2010archive/karakas.pdfhttp://des.emory.edu/mfp/efficacynotgiveup.html