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What is intelligence?
The term intelligence seems to be clear when used in conversation. But when we go to specific analysis or examples, intelligence may be many different things. Intelligence has been broken into many categories and has been measured in many different ways. There are many agreements and disagreements as to what intelligence is. For the purpose of helping our children become intelligent, we can say intelligence is a combination of our ability to learn and our ability to solve problems. After all, what children need the most is to learn so that at some point they will solve their problems effectively.
Most of the traditional intelligence tests are based on a test developed in France by a Doctor called Binet. Tests based on Binet's try to measure reason, imagination, insight, judgment, and adaptability. Most intelligence tests are developed through comparing the results of the current test with the results given by previous tests. So, they all measure more or less the same things the same way. This means that when we work with our children's intelligence, we can use virtually any intelligence test for the children’s level that is available at the neighborhood book store.
The idea of working at home with intelligence tests is not to measure the child's intelligence. It is very strongly indicated that psychological testing of any kind should be performed only by trained professionals. Our intention is to teach our children to learn, to understand how they learn and how they think, and to use their knowledge to learn problems. What can be better to help us understand how we think than a test that was devised to measure how we think.
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