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SCAMPER

SCAMPER is an acronym for the creative development process proposed by Alex Faickney Osborn.

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SCAMPER ("Substitute, Combine, Adjust, Modify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, Reverse") is an acronym that provides a structured way of assisting students to think out of the box and enhance their knowledge.^[1]

It is thought to protect students' creativity as they mature.^[2]

SCAMPER was proposed by Alex Faickney Osborn in 1953 and was further developed by Bob Eberle in 1971 in his book — "SCAMPER: Games for Imagination Development."^[3]

SCAMPER is an activity-based thinking process that can be performed by Cooperative learning. Here the teacher assists the students in choosing a particular topic and helps them to develop it through a structured process.^[4] After picking an idea, the students are given a tale where they perform the activity in steps corresponding to the letters in the name.

• Substitute (analogy) comes up with another topic that is equivalent to the present topics.
• Combine (convergence) adds information to the original topic.
• Adjust identifies ways to construct the topic in a more flexible and adjusted material.
• Modify, magnify, minify creatively changes the topic or makes a feature/idea bigger or smaller.
• Put to other uses (generate/divergence/connect) identifies the possible scenarios and situations where this topic can be used.
• Eliminate removes ideas or elements from the topic that are not valuable.
• Reverse, rearrange evolves a new concept from the original concept.

Hence, SCAMPER as a teaching strategy helps the students to analyze the knowledge in its creative form and helps the teacher to make teaching creative and interesting.

We can link creativity methods to Combinatorics.

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