How to improve your logical ability /Critical thinking
The cognitive skills of a human determines his quality of life – be it learning, education or normal day to day living, - Reasoning and logical skills defines the boundary!.
Given below are few practical means of improving your critical thinking ability.
• Try remembering things in day to day life than storing to your PDA devices!
• Try to remember the mobile numbers of your close and dear
Challenge yourself - just ten minutes of mental activity a day might be enough to reduce your risks of mental decline.
• Games which involves strategy- like PUZZLES /Sudokus
• Keep your brain sharp and toned with regular exercise
Game 1: Find the Missing !!
A good game for students to get acquainted with numbers, operations and puzzles
Description of the game
Find the missing operations.. (Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
Number (missing operation) number (operation)= number
The fun is to find the operations which give the result, the end number!
Example: 3----- 6 ----2 +1 =10
The BODMAS – the precedence of operations also need to be taken care
One possible solution is : 3 * 6/ 2 +1 = 10
Ie, 6/2= 3 mutipley by 3 add one … u get 10
The game can be made hard by including negative numbers, more operations etc
There would be more than one possibility for the question and the scoring will depends upon how many possibilities can be arrived
This can be played in a smaller group.
This game doesn’t require a paper or pen hence can be played while traveling or during leisure time
These are good exercise for school going students to improve their computation skills
Game 2: Memory test
• Take 15 to 20 items normally the items that we see in our day to day living
• Analyze the same for 10 minutes,
• Keep the item away
• Try to recall the items in a span of 15 minutes..
Hints:
• Try forming a logical story / flow of remembering the things
• Think of an incident where you used those items…
A well functioning mind can reduce occasions of degenerative brain diseases and other brain related diseases.
These enable a student to develop a good learning skills, cognitive skills which helps to develop the learning skills of students these allows to process the sensory information we come across and henceforth analyze, evaluate , retain the relevant information’s compare the options, recall and come to a consensus.
Weak cognitive skills can be strengthened and normal cognitive skills can be enhanced to increase ease and performance in learning.
Where there is a will there is a way!.. give it a try..It worth it
