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Multiple Intelligences

By incorporating into the learning experience a mixture of activities that meet the 8 different styles of learning ensures maximum effectiveness, input and retention.

There are 8 learning styles or intelligences as researched and published by Howard Gardner: Musical, Kinaesthetic, Mathematical / Logical, Visual / Spatial, Linguistic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal and Naturalist. In the following pages you can learn more about each intelligence and suggestions on how to develop these further.

Logical Mathematical Intelligence

Some individuals are able to learn just about anything using their logical skills. They are able to calculate and work out relationships and connections between items. They enjoy mental challenges seeking out solutions to logical, abstract and mathematical problems and have good deductive reasoning skills. On a lesser scale, thy may simply excel at games involving skill and strategy such as chess or computer battle games.

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence may be defined as the ability to appreciate and calculate the effect of actions upon objects or ideas and the relationships among them. To apply inductive and deductive reasoning skills, to provide solutions and to overcome complex mathematical and logical challenges as well as solving critical and creative problems.

Individuals with Logical-Mathematical Intelligence will fall into one or perhaps all of the following sectors:-

• Educational Mathematical Achievements
• Studied maths at school / college and achieved good grades
• Strong everyday Mathematical Skills
• Enjoys utilising ones mathematical skills in everyday life
• Everyday Problem Solving Skills – Naturally inquisitive, curious and investigative
• Ability to apply logical reasoning skills to solve everyday problems
• Strategic Games – Generally enjoys, and is good at games involving skill and strategy

To exhibit strong Logical-Mathematical Intelligence, it is not necessary for you to be good at maths - the very act of selecting key points in a logical, systematic numbered sequence can be evidence of this intelligence. The very act of investigating and analysing allows you to go beneath the surface of what you may be learning so as not to simply take it at face value.

Develop Your Logical / Mathematical Intelligence by:

To improve your Logical-Mathematical Intelligence, it is not necessary for you to be good at maths. We may all benefit from increasing this intelligence for many reasons. The very act of selecting key points in a logical, systematic numbered sequence can help you to think more carefully about what you may be learning. The very act of investigating and analysing allows you to go beneath the surface of what you may be learning so as not to simply take it at face value.

• Play logical/mathematical games (Go, Cluedo, Dominoes) with friends and family
• Learn to use an abacus
• Work on logic puzzles and brain teasers
• Learn basic computer programming
• Take a course in basic maths or science at an evening class
• Draw flowcharts of all the key processes in your department or area of work and then come up with new ideas on how to make whatever service you provide more effective
• Read the business sections of the newspaper and look up unfamiliar economic or financial concepts
• Visit a science museum
• Tape yourself talking out loud about how to solve logical or mathematical problems
• Help your kids with their maths/science homework
• Purchase a telescope and a microscope and discover a myriad of new worlds!

Ask yourself the following questions, and if you don’t know the answers, go find out!

• Why is it hotter in summer than in winter?
• How does an atom differ from a molecule?
• What is a superconductor?
• Why is the sky blue?
• What is a black hole?
• What causes acid raid? (What causes rain?)
• What is DNA?
• How does an electric motor work?
• What is a laser?
• How does a microwave oven cook your food?
• What’s the most enjoyable way for you to develop this kind of intelligence?

To further develop your learning styles we strongly recommend the following:

Multiple Intelligences- Howard Gardner   

Howard Gardners brilliant conception of individual competence is changing the face of education today. In the ten years since the publication of his seminal Frames of Mind , thousands of educators, parents, and researchers have explored the practical implications of Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory the powerful notion that there are separate human capacities, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in understanding oneself. Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice brings together previously published and original work by Gardner and his colleagues at Project Zero.

Frames of Mind: Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner

The author demonstrates that there exist many human "intelligences", common to all cultures - each with its own pattern of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others. These potentials include linguistic, musical and logical/mathematical capacities, as well as spatial and bodily intelligences, and the ability to arrive at an emotional and mental sense of self and other people. Rather than reducing an individual's potential to a single score on an IQ test, it is the fostering and education of all these intelligences that should be our concern.

Intelligence Reframed - Howard Gardner 

Other Inspiring Breakthrough Multiple Intelligences within this section;

Musical
Kinaesthetic
Logical Mathematical
Visual Spatial
Linguistic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal

Individual Performance Improvement
Team Performance Improvement
Accelerated Learning
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Business Growth Performance

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