ABSTRACT
Fluent thinking is the mental flow of ideas and thoughts. It is the ability to produce a large quantity of creative ideas. Fluency activities may ask the learner to generate answers to questions of how many, what kinds, or what else. Fluent thinkers produce lots of ideas. Fluency tasks cause a search through the learner’s private collection or storehouse of knowledge and experiences for all possible responses. For example, brainstorming in small groups promotes fluency, as one person’s idea triggers more responses from other members of the group. The rationalization for promoting fluent thinking is that the more responses that are produced, the greater are the odds of producing an original idea or of producing a satisfactory solution.
