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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The publishers have information to use so that kids will be familiar with the instructions and have an idea of what to expect.

Being taught how to do the questions and practicing how to do do them certainly helps a child with memory tasks. Kids  can be trained to memorize methods and steps to solve puzzles and problems. Kids who can quickly solve problems they have never seen before are obviously intelligent.

Here's a good example. You give two kids each a [b]Rubik's Cube[/b] and a book of instructions. One kid picks up the cube, examines it, and in a short time, solves it. The other one picks it up, plays with it, is not sure how it works and reads the instructions and solves the cube. They each have solved the puzzle, but one used his own intelligence, the other relied on the directions from someone who had done it before. Both kids are intelligent, but the one who can solve the problem without help is exhibiting a different type of intelligence than that needed to memorize steps from an outside aid(in this case, the instruction booklet).

[/quote]What about the kid that takes it apart and reassembles it so it is solved?[/quote]

That kid would be in the first category. I had a kid who took apart [b]toasters and remote controls[/b], fixed them and put them back together. No one taught him how to do it, he just figured it out on his own. 
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This argument of how intelligence should be determined is so cockamamy.  toasters, remotes? Gives rest of us gifted parents a bad name.  No wonder people are tired of hearing from us.  [/quote]

+1 Reminds me of when parents say their kids read Harry Potter in kindergarten.  Nails on a chalkboard...[/quote]

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