Psychology Assignment | Solving Puzzles

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PSYCHOLOGY: LET’S COUNT

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Part A: Three learning stories
1. Solving Puzzles
Henry is a five-year-old kid with an introvert nature, who could be found playing alone
with a ball or solving short puzzles. According to mathematician, Afsar & Masood, introvert
children are more likely to be good at solving logical reasoning questions and puzzles (Afsar
& Masood, 2018). He is less inclined towards socializing with other kids or the members
but could be found lost in his own thoughts or doing something creative. Unlike the child of
his age, Henry does not prefer to be at noisy place and prefers peace above everything. The
other quality that makes him different from other kids is his attitude of composure as he is not
highly reactive.
According to Amanchukwu, the high level of composure in an individual, points out to
the great creative solving techniques in a child (Amanchukwu, 2015). I have observed
Henry at various occasions where I found his usual past time is playing with the puzzles. The
puzzles are of various categories where they have to adjust it to make a picture presented to
them. From the beginning, I have observed him doing puzzles in an efficient way unlike other
kids of his age. In one of the classes, children were taught the maps of the country where they
were taught with the help of colors so that they can easily learn different areas of the country.
After class, the responses of the children were average where most children were able to
identify various areas represented to them during the class but I observed the extraordinary
response of Henry.
After the maps class, children were made to the perform an exercise of putting the pieces
of the map puzzle together in twenty minutes. After twenty minutes, I checked every children
desk where most of them were unable to put the pieces together while some children were
unable to complete it in time. Among all the class children, Henry was the one who within
fifteen minutes was able to correctly organize the pieces of the maps. After looking at
Henry’s capabilities, I started developing in him the higher level of mathematical learning by
helping him to solve the puzzles of higher level where he had to solve the intricate pictures
designs with help of videos. Initially, in the first five days, it was difficult for him to
understand about certain things but with time, he developed the right understanding of doing
it.
This extraordinary trait could be observed in the five-year child who could so easily solve
the map puzzle just after one class. During the Family gathering activities also, I could find

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him correctly organizing the items or the toys in a row horizontally and vertically (Anacleto,
2014). These activities of Henry are suggestive of the high mathematical and logical abilities
of Henry. The correct organization of the puzzle by Henry was suggestive of his good
catching power and analytical skills which are both required in solving the mathematics
questions in an effective and efficient manner. The advices that I would like to give to the
family to help henry in the mathematical skills are that the family must focus on developing
the analytical skills of henry by developing his interest in puzzle arrangement techniques.
Henry’s guardians must ensure that he should be given a lot amount of time in organizing the
items and other stuff. The proper focus should be given on development of the skills so that
he can perform best in the area of mathematics.
2. Counting backwards
It was the evening time when Henry was involved in playing with puzzle games at the
family gathering activities. In that time, henry was called on by his friends to play a counting
game with them. During the game, a child has to count the number of items of a thing
presented in their surrounding and then do its backward counting. As I observed that, during
the game, many children stuttered in doing the backward counting and were fired from the
game but when the turn of the henry comes who was asked to do the counting of candies
lying on the table. Henry counted it to 30 and was able to do the backward counting with
ease. The act of doing backward counting of the number thirty with ease surprised me. Henry
did not even stutter for a second, in counting the number thirty backward.
In another round of the game, many other children were fired from the game, when the
second turn comes to Henry, he was asked to count the number of black color boxes in the
painting and to count them backward by leaving a number between them. Henry counted the
number of black boxes in the painting to be fifty and he was able to perfectly count it
backward by leaving a number between them. In this round, also he did not stutter. In the
round third, Henry had to count the number of red color balls in the bag and this time he had
to leave two numbers in between them. Henry counted the number of red balls to be 40 and
was again successfully count it backwards. This time also he did not stutter and was able to
achieve the task with ease.
The activities that I observed of Henry really surprised me and made me consider his
mathematical skills extraordinary. Henry mathematical skill of counting was commendable as
he did not excel in simply counting but was also able to achieve the counting under various