WAYS OF CREATIVE THINKING OF YOUNGER STUDENTS
The article reflects a study devoted to the study of the creative thinking of younger schoolchildren in the drafting of new tasks of a spatially combinatorial nature, solved according to the rules for rearranging the elements of conditions to an empty seat for a certain number of movements. Four main methods of composing tasks were identified and their distribution among students of the second and third grades was determined. It has been established that three-quarters of third-graders (9 years old) and only half of second-graders (8 years old) use meaningful and productive method of drafting problems. The obtained results testify to the fact that younger schoolchildren have a tendency to advance the use of the meaningful method in the drafting of spatial-combinatorial problems.