Designs for Strong Minds
Puzzles with a Purpose
Designs for Strong Minds
These Visual Imagery exercises give you practice in selecting relevant information. Of course, in real life what is relevant to one person may be completely irrelevant to another. These puzzles teach you the process of distinguishing relevant information from information that is useless at the moment.
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Why These Exercises Are Worth the Effort
Selecting relevant information amid chaos Projecting the desired result, which minimizes ambiguity
Planning behavior and confirming inferences before taking
actionVerifying resultsChanging strategies as needed to attain desired results
Teaching Experience
Since 1983, Donalee Markus and her Designs for Strong Minds™ associates have been maximizing intelligence
for individuals and corporations throughout the World. An innovative program of exercises, Designs for
Strong Minds™, uses game-like, context-free exercises to filter out emotional influences, which allows the
participants to work solely on cognitive skills.
My Teaching Style
Designs for Strong Minds™ maximizes intelligence by making students aware of the ways in which they think.
Designs for Strong Minds™ uses context-free materials and mediation to maximize intelligence and the
capacity to learn. These brain exercises develop visual imagery skill. Visual imagery is the ability to
create pictures in your head. Visual imagery is the foundation for abstract thinking and mathematics. With
these visual imagery exercises your students will develop skills to:
See pictures in their headAttend to detailsRecognize how the details contribute to the whole
picture...see how the pieces fit together Identify relevant information necessary to complete the
goalDevelop planning behavior Suppress impulsivityLesson Bundles Available:
ComparisonsConnect the DotsAnalytical Perception - Part / Whole RelationshipsIntermediate Analytical Perception BundleConnect the 3D Dots
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