Comparison of scores obtained from 184 Ss in Grades 4 through 6 on Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Verbal and Nonverbal, Form A and Seeing Through Arithmetic Tests produced significant correlations of small to moderate magnitude between verbal originality and mathematics (rs = .23 to .43, df = 183).
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