The study aimed to identify methods that can help the teacher in developing the students’ creative abilities, identify the steps of the problem solving strategy, and identify the impact of the problem solving strategy in the development of creative abilities (fluency, original flexibility and expansion) among The second middle school students in the city of Tabouk To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher followed the semi-experimental approach. The study tool was applied to a random sample of (54) female students of the second middle grade in Tabuk city, The researcher reached the following results: There were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.01) in the ability of fluency and flexibility for the benefit of the students of the experimental group who were trained in problem solving strategy, and the absence of statistically significant differences at (0.01) level of originality and addition between the experimental group and the control group.
Keywords: Problem Solving, creative thinking, intermediate stage
