In This Series Muscles of the Mind Program Visual Thinking Brain Muscle Builders Verbal Thinking Muscles of the Mind Program: Set and Activity Kit

Muscles of the Mind

• Deductive Logic (Using Information): How to put together separate but related facts, eliminate irrelevant information, and reach a valid conclusion.
• Inductive Logic (Discovering Rules): How to discover rules by observing what is similar and different among many events.
• Memory: How to remember what has been learned and what one wishes to remember.
• Creative Thinking: How to develop new and different ideas.
• Planning (Strategy): How to make plans, anticipate events, and organize efficiently to reach broad goals and to accomplish daily tasks.
• Psychomotor Activity: How to control your body movements and coordinate them with your thinking.
• Visualization: How to see in space, to imagine changes in spatial relations, to transfer images from two dimensions to three dimensions, and to observe carefully.
• Communication: How to transmit a clearly understood message, and how to avoid misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
• Problem Solving (Transfer and Application) How to create new ideas through critical thinking and logic and to make appropriate decisions to solve problems of everyday life.

• To develop and strengthen habits of efficient, systematic and productive thinking.
• To stimulate and develop natural intellectual potential and to increase self-confidence in the exercise of that potential.
• To promote better teaching and learning, making life easier for students, parents, and teachers.
• To help people adjust more easily to technological changes and to prepare them to deal more easily with school, home, work, and life situations.

• All the games, puzzles, and other activities are designed to be fun so that learners are well-motivated.
• The program helps develop and practice the major thinking skills we use in our daily lives.
• Each activity is present at several levels so students can find greater challenges as their abilities develop.
• The program provides appropriate materials for visual, abstract, tactile, and verbal learners.
• By practicing each major skill in different games and activities, and from different angles, students come to
• understand better the thinking processes and their uses in new situations.
• Students learn how to transfer and apply principles and thinking processes from the games to everyday life
• problems.
• Students develop effective thinking habits that become as automatic as riding a bicycle or driving a car.
• Teaching and learning take place through activity, discovery, and discussion. Students learn through experience and mistakes—their own and their peers’.
• Students need no specific prior knowledge to use the program.
• The program is interdisciplinary, applicable to all school, professional and vocational subjects.

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Muscles of the Mind Program

Visual Thinking

Brain Muscle Builders

Verbal Thinking

Muscles of the Mind Program: Set and Activity Kit