5 Brain Abilities

HOW CHILDREN’S BRAIN WORKS?

Children’s brain is highly adaptable. Younger minds are more flexible and adjustable to conditioning. The variety and quality of stimuli will shape your child’s brain architecture differently. Parents play vital roles for their child from young.

With BrainThink Learning methodology, your child’s 5 brain abilities can be improved, thus resulting to the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

“Education is not the learning of facts,
but the training of the mind to think.”

- Albert Einstein

THE 5 GREAT ABILITIES THAT EVERY CHILD’S BRAIN POSSESSES

Your child’s learning process and problem-solving capability have much to do with their brain’s abilities. These abilities (or cognitive abilities) are attention, visualisation, logical reasoning, memory and processing speed. Within every child lies the 5 great Brain Abilities that can be sharpened to enhance their learning and to realise their potential.

With BrainThink Learning, we can improve our child’s critical thinking and problem-solving skills by the development of the child’s 5 brain abilities.

What are the functions of these abilities? How can these benefit your child’s learning and develop problems – solving skills?

Every child has 5 brain abilities to perform wonders!

ATTENTION

The ability to maintain concentration on an object or a task.

Absorbs, processes & applies the info better
Has better memory formation
Maintains self, i.e. attentive mind, good memory power, ignore distractions & follow instructions
Masters new knowledge & skills

VISUALIZATION

The brain can picture info and recognizes patterns.

Retains & retrieves info easier
Can learn abstract concepts easily

MEMORY

The ability to remember & retrieve info, regardless of the time.

High working memory capacity helps your child to stay attentive & focused
Short-term memory allows the brain to make room for new info for continuous learning
Long-term memory stores info permanently & fixed in the brain

LOGICAL THINKING

The ability to strategize solutions to problems allows.

To obtain knowledge, make sense of their surroundings & make accurate yet appropriate decisions
To form numerous ways of solving a problem or doing things

PROCESSING SPEED

How quickly your child understands or performs a task.

Helps them keep up with academic demands
Enables more efficient working memory & faster logical reasoning

We all possess 5 major brain abilities. The best time to nurture healthy brain abilities is during the early childhood days.

ATTENTION (Input)

The act of listening and/or watching, and then carefully thinking through a given
information prepares us for
follow-up actions.

Example: Listening and paying attention when the teacher starting to tell a story.

VISUALISATION (Input)

Your brain’s ability to break down bulk details into recognisable points, patterns, or diagrams so that you can digest, assimilate and analyse the information relatively and effectively.

Example: Visualising and imagining the characters of the story, and having a mental image of the scene of the story.

LOGICAL THINKING (process)

This problem-solving skill
enforces structured thinking when we apply and make sense of our knowledge.

Example: Anticipating the progress of the story/what should be done by the
characters when encountering problems.

MEMORY (process)

The ability to store and recall information, derive insights, values, and learn to avoid mistakes.

Example: Remembering the
details/recalling the past
similar experiences.

PROCESSING SPEED (output)

This is the ability to process information fluently with speed. Neuroscientists think that brains that are extensively networked with well-knitted neurons can achieve this complicated task.

Example:
a) Consolidating the details and retelling the story using his/her own words.

b) Expressing his/her opinions and emotion for the story.

c) Answering the questions raised by the teacher.

HOW DO I KNOW MY CHILD’S 5 BRAIN ABILITIES?

The 5 Brain Abilities Assessment (5BA Assessment) is a valuable tool for you
to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of your child.

Any weaknesses can be improved and any strengths can be enhanced, especially from young.

The 5 Brain Abilities Assessment test takes less than an hour, which can
be done individually or in a group. Refer to www.5brain.org.

OUR DISCOVERY

With years of experience in education, we’ve observed that young children’s 5 brain abilities
can be further developed with fun and games. They have a natural motivation to
play and their curiosities will lead them to think and learn.

This observation showed that children’s brain capabilities (or more commonly referred to as ‘IQ’) are
closely related to their performance at school, and even their social life and happiness.

The good news is, your child’s 5 brain abilities can be nurtured and developed!

The earlier these 5 brain abilities are developed, the more confident and
happier they will be in their learning and growing up.

5 Brain Abilities

HOW CHILDREN’S BRAIN WORKS?

“Education is not the learning of facts,
but the training of the mind to think.”

- Albert Einstein