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Thinking Out Loud

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Jenny in Articles, Brain Training

There was some interesting research reported by ‘The Journal of Research in Educational Psychology’.  They claim that the key to answering difficult problems is to speak them out loud or to draw them. Therefore, when faced with difficult mathematical problems, students reportedly fared better by thinking out loud. It might make for a noisy classroom but it would make for better mathematicians. Similarly any problem was apparently more easily solved if the student was able to draw it or make some kind of pictorial representation. No more silent tube or train journeys then!

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