Numerical Progressions

Description of the instrument
Numerical Progressions helps learners search for, deduce, and induce relationships between separate objects or events. Learners draw accurate conclusions regarding the cause of progressions as the instrument increases their ability to compare, infer, and reason deductively and inductively. This instrument mediates precision, discrimination, and a willingness to defer judgment until all of the elements have been worked out in determining a common rule for a progression.

Cognitive functions developed

• Use of relevant tacit cues like index (the place of a number in the progression).
• Projection of relationships between the elements of the progression.
  

Mediation of sample task
Mediation of challenge is essential for the very difficult, very complex, and novel sample tasks below. Mediation of intentionality, transcendence, and meaning is indicated in fostering an understanding of higher-order relationships.


Sample task

©1996 R. Feuerstein, HWCRI.