Toku science topic
How secure knowledge, reasoning, control and adaptation come together when the problem is unfamiliar or the clock matters.
Explore the thinking skills that support demanding tests, selective entrance, competitions, Olympiads and build challenges such as hackathons.
Paul L. Morgan et al. · Child Development
The ability to hold a goal, switch perspective and resist distractions is connected with learning across more than one school subject.
Working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control in kindergarten predicted later reading, mathematics and science achievement in a large longitudinal sample.
Caroline T. Green et al. · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
The capacity to reason through new patterns and relationships is relevant to later mathematical development, not only stored factual knowledge.
Fluid reasoning predicted future mathematical performance above several other cognitive measures in the longitudinal study.
Bert Jonsson, Carina Granberg & Johan Lithner · Frontiers in Psychology
Mathematical learning can benefit when children have to construct or justify a route rather than only imitate a supplied procedure.
Students practising with creative mathematical reasoning showed advantages on later mathematical performance compared with more imitative algorithmic practice in the reported work.
Marci S. DeCaro · Memory & Cognition
Good practice should build fluency without teaching children that every problem has to be attacked in exactly the same way.
Repeated exposure to one procedure can create a mental set that makes learners less likely to notice a more efficient strategy and can constrain later flexibility.