logical mathematical intelligence

1. LOGICAL -
MATHEMATICAL
INTELLIGENCE
PRESENTED BY:
Afshee Zaffar
Kiran Zaheer
Ushna Riaz.

2. 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)

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. CHARACTERISTICS (CONTINUED)
• Good at extracting patterns and sequences.
• Good at finding the cause and solution of
problems.
• Devise experiments to test out things.

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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?

13. 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?