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Any logic and reasoning skill test is designed to see how well you handle and solve problems, using logic. Logic & Reasoning is one of the brain’s cognitive skills. When this skill is strong, logical thinking comes naturally, although logic, like math, still must be taught. A person with weak logic and reasoning skills will ...

Introducing a brand new LearningRx website… LearningRx.org! Parents with children who struggle to learn are careful to choose wisely which programs they invest in. They want a program that is created by and run by people who care for them and their children, from the heart. The purpose of LearningRx.org is to give parents the ...

June 15th is National Brain Training Day! On June 1st, LearningRx, thecountry’s leading personal brain training company declared June15th National Brain Training Day. The day was declared with two purposesin mind. First, to dispel myths around cognitive skills training. Secondly,to raise awareness of the phenomenal gains the right type of brain trainingcan bring. “LearningRx brain ...

How do we learn to read? It isn’t as simple as you might think. In a recent article, Sabra Gelfond, Speech-Language Pathologist and Executive Director ofthe National Speech / Language Therapy Center, compared the way we learnto read to the way a house is built. There are four major steps to both,she points out, and ...

Does your child need brain training or tutoring? What’s the difference? Do you know? Take this short quiz, and see if you can tell the difference. Get a piece of paper, read through the two scenarios in each question, and write down which story is like brain training and which story is like tutoring. Brain ...

Please stop talking. That’s what your child who is a kinesthetic learner is thinking – more often than you realize. Please just stop saying words, and let me do something. Let me please get up out of my chair. I’m going crazy here! Some teachers or parents may think a child is being stubborn, impatient, ...

Chances are, now that summer’s here, you aren’t thinking much aboutbrain fitness (if you think about it at all). No, you’re thinkingabout playing tag, eating watermelon, or lying on the beach in the sundoing absolutely nothing, and I don’t blame you. But activities thatboost physical and brain fitness during the summer can help you (and ...

My sixth grade teacher, Mr. Muir, was brilliant. He was kind, and funny, and encouraging, and he knew how to inspire eventhe most stubborn of his students (like me) to really care about learning.He had this thing in the classroom called the “what-is-it”of the week. It was a random weird item we’d never seen before.We’d ...

Improve Logic and Reasoning Everybody knows somebody who always says “I’m a logical person” or “I think rationally.” And many times we assume that being a logical thinker is just a personality trait – but the truth is, logical thinking can be trained and improved. Years ago, logic was taught in elementary school classrooms – ...

Christmas Memory Game: Brain Booster! The holidays are full of stress, worry, and lots of sugar. All of thesecan affect your memory, at least temporarily. See if your mind is as sharpas one of Santa’s elves, even after you ate your 27th snowman cookie!Find reindeer, angels, presents, boots, skates, and other Christmas items.Start off easy ...