LOGICAL -MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE

PRESENTED BY:Afshee ZaffarKiran ZaheerUshna Riaz.

HARVARD GARDENER’S INTELLIGENCES

• Harvard Gardner's theory, "documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform and understand in different ways,” according to Gardner.(1991)

• “These differences challenge an educational system that assumes that everyone can learn the same materials in the same way and that a uniform universal measure suffices to test student learning. As currently constituted, our educational system is heavily biased towards linguistic modes of instruction and assessment and to a lesser degree, toward logical quantitative modes as well.”(Gardner)

A BROAD VISION

• All 7 intelligences are needed to live life well. Teachers therefore need to attend to all intelligences. It involves educators opting “for depth over breadth.”

• Understanding entails taking knowledge gained in one setting and using it in another.

• These intelligences, according to Howard Gardner, are amoral-they can be put to constructive or destructive use.

LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE

Definition: Logical-Mathematical Intelligence is the ability to calculate, quantify, consider propositions and hypotheses and carry out complete mathematical operations

• In Howard Gardner’s words, “It entails the ability to detect patterns, reason deductively and think logically. This intelligence is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking.”

• This theory validates educator’s everyday experience: Students think and learn in many different ways.

• This reflection has led many educators to develop new approaches that might better meet the needs of the range of learners in their classrooms.

CHARACTERISTICS OF LOGICAL MATHEMATICALLY INTELLIGENT PERSON:• Number smart• Able to learn and think logically.• Have good understanding of logical concepts.• Enjoy solving puzzles and mysteries.• Skilled at manipulating operations and numbers.• Skilled at understanding and applying scientific principles.• Have above average reasoning skills.• Love brain teasers and computer games.

CHARACTERISTICS (CONTINUED)• Able to reason deductively.• Develops best by categorizing, deciphering and outlining.• Handle long chains of reasons to make local progressions.• Do controlled experiments.• Work with abstract concepts to work out relation between items.• Perform complex mathematical problems.• Work with geometric shapes.• Classify and categorize information.

CHARACTERISTICS (CONTINUED)• Good at extracting patterns and sequences.• Good at finding the cause and solution of

problems.• Devise experiments to test out things.

MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENT PEOPLE LEARN BEST BY:• Analyzing• Categorizing• Formulas • Logic games• Numbers • Outlining• Patterns• Problem solving

MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENT PEOPLE LEARN BEST BY (CONTINUED)• Reasoning• Time lines• Synthesis• Sequencing• Rational thinking• Scientific thinking• Venn diagrams• Statistics

HOW WE DEVELOP LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE

To improve your Logical-Mathematical Intelligence, it is not necessary for you to be good at math. 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 analyzing 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, Clue do, Dominoes) with

friends and family• Learn to use an abacus

HOW WE DEVELOP LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE

(CONTINUED)• Work on logic puzzles and brain teasers• Learn basic computer programming• Take a course in basic math 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

• Visit a science museum• Tape yourself talking out loud about how to solve logical or

mathematical problems

QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED

Ask the following questions, and if they don't  know the answers, let them go  and 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?

QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED (CONTINUED)

• 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?