Just about every teacher has heard of the different types of multiple intelligences and "smarts" that humans possess. Well today I just heard about another type of intelligence called "fluid" intelligence. Fluid intellience is unique because it looks nothing like traditional types of brainpower such as memorizing and recalling facts. Fluid Intelligence (as opposed to being fixed or set) requires much deeper thinking than memorization. So what exactly is fluid intelligence? It is the ability to find meaning in confusion and to solve new problems, independent of acquired knowledge. Read more about it in the following article entitled "Get Smarter" by Jamais Coscio in the July/August 2009 issue of The Atlantic Magazine!
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence
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