Can you connect the 9 dots using four straight lines without lifting your pencil/ pen from the paper?
To succeed in doing so, get creative and try thinking beyond the normal ways of doing things.
What exactly is creativity? Is there a difference between creativity and innovation? Dictionary.com explains creativity as the ability to think beyond the traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships etc to create meaningful new ideas, methods and so on. Whereas innovation refers to the introduction of new things or methods.
New ideas, improvements and problems solving come much easier with creativity and innovativeness. Therefore, it is not uncommon that more focus is placed on helping to boost a child's creativity and innovativeness. One good example of creativity is a common urban legend whereby NASA scientists realised that pens could not function in space.
This is because the ink could not flow to the writing tip without gravity. To help the astronauts write things down, NASA spent huge amount of time and money trying to develop a pen. However, the more creative Russians managed to solve this problem easily and almost effortlessly... by simply using a pencil! (Reference: scientificamerican.com)
How can we help breed creativity and innovativeness in a child? One of the good ways will be to guide the child to "think outside" the box, such as:
* adding new features - e.g. from music player, camera etc to a multi functional smart phone
* deleting current features - e.g. from telephone to wireless mobile phone
* making it bigger - e.g. from folded sofa armchair expanded to be a full-size sofa bed
* making it smaller - e.g. from bulky computer to portable laptop
As a children enrichment programs provider, Numis Academy understands the importance of building these two very important qualities into its programs. With the same beliefs and principles, Numis Academy also develops its own creative games and innovative programs.
Now, have you gotten your answers right? :)
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