Rabota posvyashchena probleme razvitiya divergentnogo myshleniya mladshikh shkol'nikov v protsesse obucheniya matematike. V nachale raboty obosnovyvaetsya aktual'nost' etoy problemy v svyazi s modernizatsiey rossiyskoy sistemy nachal'nogo obrazovaniya v sootvetstvii s mezhdunarodnoy programmoy YuNESKO Obrazovanie dlya vsekh. V pervoy glave raboty daetsya teoreticheskiy analiz takim ponyatiyam kak myshlenie, kreativnost', divergentnoe i konvergentnoe myshlenie i divergentnaya i konvergentnaya zadacha. Obsuzhdaetsya vzaimosvyaz' etikh ponyatiy s tochki zreniya problemy razvitiya kreativnosti myshleniya mladshikh shkol'nikov v protsesse obucheniya matematike. Vtoraya glava posvyashchena izlozheniyu metodiki razvitiya divergentnogo myshleniya mladshikh shkol'nikov v protsesse obucheniya matematike. Zdes' sformulirovany didakticheskie usloviya, neobkhodimye dlya resheniya postavlennoy nami problemy, i vyyavleny 15 tipov divergentnykh zadach s metodikoy obucheniya ikh resheniyu mladshikh shkol'nikov, pokazavshikh svoyu effektivnost' na praktike. Vse vyvody i metodicheskie rekomendatsii opirayutsya na rezul'taty pedagogicheskogo eksperimenta. Rabota adresovana glavnym obrazom uchitelyam nachal'nykh klassov, prepodavatelyam i studentam pedagogicheskikh vuzov i kolledzhey.