Stratification of graphic form of technical information representation in the order of abstraction

The problem of the forming of technical thinking by developing creative thinking for the students of technology is discussed. The stratification of the graphical representation of information is described that allows: to intensify data processing; to gradually present data in the educational process forming the system of the interconnected mental images; to exclude the appearance of mental images that are not connected with the subject experience. Theoretical value of the paper is in the representation extension of the didactic possibilities of the graphical representation of information based on the functions of the technical thinking components given in the offered scale «abstract - concrete».