The aim of the present study was to investigate the creative ability of mathematically gifted and non-gifted elementary school students in Cyprus, through the exploitation use of multiple solution tasks. Moreover, a comparison of fluency, flexibility and originality of students’ answers on multiple solution tasks has been outlined .
With regard to the creative potential of gifted and non-gifted students, it is important to note that both groups of students were able to propose a number of different appropriate solutions, indicating that multiple solution tasks are appropriate to reveal the creative ability of all students. When students, independently of their performance, have the opportunity to work in a creative educational environment that accepts multiple solutions as correct and encourage the connection of mathematical ideas, they may express their mathematical potential. Indeed, the research interest on the field of creativity should not only focus in a subset of children that has been identified as gifted or creative. On the contrary, researchers should aim to the creation of suitable conditions that will enhance creativity in all children (Hershkovitz, Peled & Littler, 2009).