I feel reasoning skills should be taught to primary school kids. In fact, through my research I have found that schools teach reasoning skills threw out all grades. The questions we should be asking, are students being taught the right reasoning skills for the twenty-first century, are they being taught the best nutritional health and exercise to maintain a healthy mind and body, and will they know how to help prevent diseases like Alzheimer's and other mind crippling problems that come with age.
Students are being taught reasoning skills threw out every year of education from K-12 and in college. Educators are even planning reasoning skills lessons for preschool kids. Teachers are using online programs, worksheets, and games like Sudoku to teach and develop primary school children's reasoning skills. Due to changes in information technology in recent years some high school students are unable to critically read, analyze, and evaluate information. To address these problems they have developed courses designed to provide students with needed logical tools.
Reports have shown that teaching kids healthy eating and exercise have helped reduce childhood obesity and reduced blood cholesterol levels and improved lung capacity. Unfortunately, children's learning this at school is not enough. Parents need to help by continuing this education at home. With things like better family meals, better (more interesting) activities for exercise, and better sleeping habits. Just like learning math or reading, healthy eating and proper exercising habits start at home.
We, as adults, should continue to work our brains. Keep them healthy. Like exercise for the body working out our brain on a regular basis is good for us. Lumosity.com is a site that helps all ages to develop and improve cognitive training and learning using games and puzzles. Keeping the mind active is a helper in preventing Alzheimer's disease. As we get older we may experience memory loss due to a number of reasons; deterioration of the hippocampus, we have a loss of neurons as we age, and older people often experience decreased blood flow to the brain.
As you have gone through and read in this BLOG, reasoning skills are things we develop for as early as crawling age. We must, as we did as kids, keep the mussels moving or they will stiffen up and stop working as well or not at all. Exercise and eating right from the start is the best thing for a healthy body and mind. It will help develop our children minds and bodies, continue building good growth, and help in the prevention of diseases in old age. Below I have attached a few sites that you can link to search and find out more information.
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