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Larissa Fradkin
Sound Mathematics Ltd, United Kingdom
The word intelligence is widely used and has many meanings. In the educational context one talks of multiple intelligencies, including crystallized and fluid, the crystallized intelligence relying on the so-called declarative memory and the fluid intelligence, on procedural memory. The current approaches to engineering education are trying to shift from developing declarative memory to procedural and thus from developing their crystallized intelligence to development of fluid intelligence. We discuss these concepts in the context of mathematical education of engineers and give examples from our educational practice. We put a particular emphasis on the role of on- line resources and various interactive apps in developing students' intelligence. We discuss further why in our view, this task is important.