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Lexia Cross-Trainer: Logical ReasoningTM Lexia Cross-Trainer: Logical Reasoning works on different abilities fundamental to comprehension and problem-solving. It provides the foundation for creating new ideas, comprehending theories, and recognizing relationships. Logical reasoning is crucial to basic organizational skills, discerning patterns, and drawing inferences, all of which are necessary in conceptual learning. A student struggling with reading, math, or science might improve his performance by receiving extra coaching, but he could also develop the logical reasoning skills that make it easier to learn those subjects. As with a good teacher, the software is designed to branch upward when the student succeeds, and provide more help before the student gets frustrated. Logical Reasoning Activities  SatelliteSatellite is designed to improve deductive, inductive, and inferential reasoning skills. It employs abstract thinking skills, flexibility of thought, and it emphasizes the concepts of reversibility, implication, negation and double negation, conjunction, and exclusive conjunction. Stepping Stones  Students place activity pieces (stones) across a river to create a pathway. The stones must be placed in a sequence that fits a pre-determined pattern. Students analyze the initial pieces to discover the pattern and determine what pieces they need to complete it. This activity challenges students to develop skills such as deductive reasoning, analysis, patterning, and inference. World Cup  World Cup challenges students to improve their thinking in two important ways. The first is through the understanding of the concept of class. The second is by challenging students to think systematically and efficiently by carefully planning their way through the challenges. If students resort to guessing and other inefficient strategies, they will learn that it is more difficult to progress in the activity, but when they carefully think through their choices, they progress more quickly to the higher levels. World Cup is a Venn diagram activity in which students must logically determine that pieces belong inside the circles on the playing field. Fishing Derby  Fishing Derby is designed to develop classification skills, as well as improve speed. Students look at fish of different colors, shapes, depths, and numbers of stripes, and catch 3 fish that are grouped according to certain criteria. A valid group of fish is comprised of three fish which are the same within each attribute class, or different within each attribute class. For example, the shape and color could be all the same while the depth and number of stripes could be different. What cannot happen within any attribute class is to have two fish which are the same and one different (e.g. two blue and one red). Bridge Builder  In Bridge Builder, students select activity pieces that complete a series of pieces in a puzzle to repair a bridge. The activity challenges students to understand the relationship between two objects and their degrees of similarities or differences. It is designed to improve pattern recognition and to employ deductive reasoning skills. The activity emphasizes comparing and contrasting, analysis, and understanding relationships. Back to Cross-Trainer product page |
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