Logical thinking ability refers to the ability to think correctly and reasonably. It is different from thinking in images. It is the ability of people to observe, compare, analyze, judge and reason things by using scientific logical methods, and to accurately express their own thinking process. It is a kind of advanced thinking form of human beings.
Logical thinking ability covers a wide range, such as two-step thinking, multi-solution thinking, associative thinking, programming thinking and so on.
In addition, at different stages of human growth, the logical thinking ability involved is also different, such as:
For infants under three years old, it is mainly to develop the logical thinking ability of action;
For children aged three to six, it is mainly to cultivate concrete thinking of images;
For children over six years old, it is necessary to cultivate abstract logical thinking ability.
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2. How does training logical thinking ability help children's learning?
Nowadays, parents attach importance to the cultivation of children's logical thinking ability because it is very helpful for their children's follow-up study:
Training children's ability to analyze problems, specifically, is to gradually disassemble the problems and consider them comprehensively, which can not only gradually resolve the problems, but also have the ability of overall analysis;
Guide children to use a variety of thinking to solve problems and learn to study independently;
Strengthen the combination of children's theoretical knowledge and practical application, so that they can learn to use it flexibly;
Improve children's ability to plan and explore, and let children strive for perfection in their studies.
Generally speaking, training logical thinking ability helps children to study independently, solve problems independently, make overall planning, make theoretical knowledge better applied to practice, and innovate and seek change on this basis.
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3. How to train children's logical thinking ability in stages?
In fact, the cultivation of children's logical thinking ability is not achieved overnight, and it needs to be implemented in stages. To put it simply, it is to train action thinking before the age of three and let it find a way to complete an action by itself; When you are three to six years old, you should train your specific thinking ability in images. At this time, you should make more use of objects to reason. After the age of six, we should train their abstract thinking ability, learn to think independently, draw inferences from others, and so on.
4. What are the ways to train children's logical thinking ability?
If children want to have excellent logical thinking ability, they need to find correct methods, which mainly include guiding children to think more, improving their language understanding and expression ability, and improving their thinking ability in order, time, space and size.
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Specifically:
First, ask more questions, don't give complete answers according to children's standards, constantly arouse them to think new things, fully use their brains, make more assumptions, and guide them to divergent thinking;
Second, we should express more and enrich our vocabulary, so that they can gradually understand the differences between different words and different sentence patterns in different situations;
The third is to train specific mathematical abilities, including the size of the object, the concept of time, the imagination of space, the color and shape of the object, etc.
There are many ways to train children's logical thinking ability. Parents can apply it according to their children's age and learning situation, so that children can have stronger motivation in future learning.