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1. Brain-Based Learning - What is It? Just between you and me, I've always thought the term "brain-based learning" was silly. After all, we don't do anything, much less learn, without using our brain. Our lives are brain-based. So what do they mean "brain-based learning"? Naturally the answer's complicated because it means different things to different people. The narrowest meaning refers to the work of Howard Gardner, a Harvard psychologist, and folks following him who've written books for teachers and parents. In his book, "Multiple Intelligences," Gardner identified seven different learning styles including linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, musical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. For example, I always prefer to read directions instead of watching a video or trying to follow a diagram. I've got a linguistic learning style. You can find lots of learning style quizzes on the web for kids and adults. But it's also pretty easy to figure out your learning style without taking a quiz. What do you most like to do? What do your kids like to do? Love reading? Hate reading? Like to make things with their hands? Would rather sing or play a musical instrument? Excel in sports? Gardner's work has transformed hundreds of classrooms and taught us that we all learn in a variety of different ways. That the standard linguistic, logical-mathematical, left-brain style of teaching that has characterized school (and certainly college) doesn't work for all kids--maybe not even for most kids. A child with ADHD behavior learns in one way. A child who has been read to since infancy learns in yet a different way. Artistic children, yet another way. Children who are predominately left- brain learn differently than children who are predominately right-brain. Some learning styles are unique to certain kids. Using movement, such as in Brain Gym® is more universal. Moving always helps everyone learn. It's essential to effective stress-free learning. It's how we learned as infants. And movement helps us use learning styles beyond our favorites.

2. For some, multiple intelligences seemed overly complicated and restricting. Differentiated instruction sprang up out of that frustration. It's another variety of brain-based teaching based on individual differences and needs but broader and looser than Gardner's model. Eric Jensen, a well-know learning specialist among K-6 teachers, uses the term "brain-based learning" from the broadest perspective. Jensen suggests that brain-based learning applies neuroscientific principles to learning and teaching. He uses these principles to evaluate everything from scent to stress, from ADHD to art. Then relates them to classroom use. His work, although highly research based, is generally more classroom and parent friendly than Gardner's. Jensen offers resources from easy-to-read books to workshops to his annual Learning Brain Expo. Bottom line, brain-based learning uses techniques and strategies that increase brain functioning for all kinds of different learners, all kinds of different brains. What Socrates Taught Us About Brain-Based Learning Once upon a time, learning theory was limited to the imaginings of scholars. No one had any way to study what went on inside the brain during any kind of learning process. In the last twenty years, the advent of sophisticated imaging technology and massive computing power ushered in an explosion in rigorous scientific research on brain-based learning. Long before the onset of this scientific investigation of how the brain actually learns, people all over the world have been challenging the traditional approach to educating others - the teacher-tell model. "Teacher-tell" is an efficient means of transferring knowledge in the mind of the expert teacher into the minds of large numbers of novice students. University classrooms in every corner of the planet feature auditorium seating for students sometimes numbering in the hundreds. Students sit patiently in their seats while the teacher spews forth his or her knowledge in the expectation it will stick to the students' brains. The teacher-tell model was based on a master/apprentice approach that some say dates back to the time of the ancient Greeks, beginning with the philosopher and teacher, Socrates. Some would argue that Socrates did not follow a master/apprentice model. Could we even today learn something about brain-based learning from the Socratic Method?

3. You can come up with your own set of educational math games. First, you need to identify the area of math you want to teach your kids. Once you've identified that, it will be easier to identify the materials or tools you need to make your own educational math games. Here is a list of materials and activities that you can utilize in creating educational math games. Cut-out activities. Starting with shapes would be a good idea. Colorful pictures and tangible objects (like candies or chocolates - nice to subtract...) are also great materials to use in counting, adding, subtracting and other mathematical solving activities. You can use cardboard cut from boxes or other sources to form cue cards and use them as part of a counting exercise. All you need are colorful pens to write down the numbers or math problems. Paper and pencils. If you are creating math games for younger children, you can try recognition exercises. Ask your child to copy or draw numbers, so he or she can gain confidence in 'doing' math while she or he is learning. If you have a computer at home, hit the web and see what online resources there are for mathematics games. Check the age range to make sure the problems and skills are appropriate and match what you are focusing on. Contact Us Address: - No.17, MP 17, Taman Merdeka Permai, 75350 Melaka, Malaysia. Pho: - +6012 - 938 7113 Email: - merdekapermai@mathmonkey.com.my More Information: - my.mathmonkey.asia/melaka- merdeka-permai