http://www.cannyminds.com/blog Brain stimulating articles and news Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:44:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.cannyminds.com/blog/2010/01/04/thinking-out-loud/ http://www.cannyminds.com/blog/2010/01/04/thinking-out-loud/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:05:57 +0000 Jenny http://cannyminds.com/blog/?p=1271 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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