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This study aims to describe the importance of increasing mathematical higher order thinking abilities of high school students through creative problem solving and direct learning. This research is a quasi-experiment with the design of a non-equivalent control-group in a senior high school in Ciamis, Indonesia. The results showed that the comparison of the improvement in students mathematical higher-order thinking abilities through learning creative problem solving was better than students with direct learning. The advantage is that students who learn creative problem solving tend to express opinions openly so that many ideas emerge to choose effective solutions.