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MI Instructional Strategies**
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 Of course, the core intelligence for success in math involves Logical-mathematical thinking, but several of the other intelligences can also be used to promote success as well as to enhance instruction. Here is a comprehensive set of **10 Tips for Teaching Math** for each of the eight intelligences. 

The multiple intelligences are each like a "tool box" that contains are wide variety of strategies and activities that can be used to enhance learning in any subject area. Here is a list of activities that can be used to conduct performance assessments of students' math skills via strategies other than pencil and paper tests. 

You can teach students how to use their unique **MI strengths to memoriz**e by providing them with this list of MI-Inspired Study Strategies. These will be of particular importance to students who are 'art risk' or SPED. 

Below is a brief **Tip Sheet ** that can spark your imagination to help individual students or enrich a lesson plan.

**MI Teaching Tips **

**Intrapersonal: Self Smart **//- "Know Thyself and to Thine Own Self Be True"// 1) Reflect on your teaching strategies. Which MI tools are missing? Where to expand? 2) Teach students different study strategies based on MI strengths. 3) Connect new information to what students already know. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) How each student (and you, too!) feels about a topic matters. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5) Use regular goal setting, progress reports and reflection times during class.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Interpersonal**: ** People Smart ** //"Please Understand Me!"// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) Recognize, empathize, challenge and support each students' MI strengths / limitations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2) Create respectful classroom culture. Values, rules, respect & conflict solutions. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3) Community service learning action projects. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) Mentoring, apprenticeships and peer tutoring.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Logical-mathematical:** **Logic Smart** //"Why? Because it's Only Logical."// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) Tests of calculation, problem-solving and step-by-step critical thinking. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2) Describe, quantify, classify, analyze and synthesize. Create explanatory time-lines. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3) Why ask Why? Promote intellectual curiosity, hypothetical and predictive thinking. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) Link mathematical and verbal-logical thinking in symbols, words, designs and actions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Linguistic:** **Word Smart** //"Tell Me in Words: Written or Spoken and I will Understand."// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) Explain in words. Have students write out information. Memorize vocabulary. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2) Use Socratic questioning. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3) Create a debate with point-counter point or convincing sales speeches. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) Tell a story or read a poem.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Musical:** **Music Smart** //"Sounds Good to Me!"// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) Use sounds, voice and songs for enhancing presentations, projects & environment. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2) Who are the musically strong students? Involve them often in topic investigations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3) Teach rhymes, chants and songs as powerful means of memorizing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) What song best introduces or captures something special about this topic?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Kinesthetic:** **Body Smart** //"Movement is FUNdamental!"// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) Use drama, skits, role-playing to embody concepts, ideas and information. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2) Use movement breaks and gestures to enliven math, reading and other academics. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3) Roll up your sleeves and make hands-on learning happen. Constructions and models. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) Invent a coordination or athletic game.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Spatial:** **Picture Smart** //"What You See Is What You Get. Imagine That!"// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) Engage metaphorical thinking, "I see what you mean". <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2) Use memorable images to communicate. Movies, photographs and performances. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3) Teach mind-mapping and other visual organizers. "Color my world with learning". <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) Beyond the chalkboard: Models, CAD, finger-paints, laser printers and video.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Naturalist:** **Nature Smart** //"It's Alive! Investigations of Life in The Natural World"// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) Observe carefully and record data of life in a particular environment. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2) Describe relationships among living things and the world. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3) Consider, What is necessary for life to thrive? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) Capture the essential nature of life in a work of art.