Mathematical-logic Inteligence.

By Martha Villarreal

Howard Gardner follows logical mathematical intelligence and logical reasoning skills: including mathematics, numerical thinking, capacity for logic problems, troubleshooting, ability to understand abstract concepts, reasoning and understanding of relationships.

Gardner says that the great theorist Jean Piaget has greatly helped to understand cognitive development, which corresponds mainly to the development of logical-mathematical intelligence, but knowing the size and the extent of things, the discovery of the quantity over the concrete to abstract concepts and finally the scenario, are not necessarily applicable to the development of other intelligences are also some special processes.

Although logical-mathematical intelligence involves knowledge critical to the advancement of technology and some sciences, Gardner considers it superior to other types of intelligence because they address the problems of life the other intelligences have their own mechanisms to order information and manage resources to solve them and not necessarily be solved through the calculation.

Features

This type of intelligence involves several kinds of thinking in three broad but interrelated areas: mathematics, science and logic.

Some aspects that has a child or person with this type of intelligence developed are:

• Perceive objects and their functioning in the environment.

• Master the concepts of quantity, time and cause and effect.

• Use symbols to represent abstract objects and concrete concepts.

A good example of this type of student is: Albert Einstein.

This type of intelligence along with the corresponding language, have been and are priorities in formal education of our country, at least in the curriculum. So most of the hours that children spend in school dedicated to studying the two subjects, but the reality is that much to do to learn them more easily. While in recent years is trying to teach mathematics and the development of logical thinking and abstract more enjoyable and interesting for children.