Core Characteristics:
- Linear Reasoning – seeking order and consistency in the world
- Concrete Reasoning - breaking down systems into their components
- Abstract Reasoning - using symbols that represent concrete ideas
- Causal Relationships – identifying cause and effect within a system
- Complex Operations – performing sophisticated algorithms
Students with a strong logical intelligence:
- Seek order
- Reason scientifically
- Identify relationships
- Enjoy testing theories
- Like completing puzzles
- Excel at calculating numbers
- Solving problems instinctively
- Analyze abstract ideas
- Manipulate functions
- Perform these operations at a rapid rate
Support this intelligence in the classroom by:
- Creating intrinsic and extrinsic order in your classroom
- Presenting criteria at the beginning of an activity to provide structure
- Offering open-ended problem solving tasks
- Including convergent thinking activities in instruction
- Promoting experiments which test student hypotheses
- Using syllogisms in language
- Encouraging classroom debate
- Incorporating puzzles into learning centers
- Setting short term, achievable goals for the class
- Allowing students to participate in building assessment rubrics
Technologies that stimulate this intelligence:
- Lecture
- Cuisenaire rods
- Unifix cubes
- Tangrams
- Measuring cups
- Measuring scales
- Ruler/yardstick
- Slide rule
- Graphing calculators
- Spreadsheet
- Search engine
- Directory
- FTP clients
- Gophers
- WebQuests
- Problem solving tasks
- Programming languages
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