{"id":473,"date":"2016-08-15T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:57:37","slug":"13-illustrated-guide-how-your-brain-solves-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"13 &#8212; Illustrated Guide: How Your Brain Solves Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A break from blogging has been required for work on the second edition of <em>Calculations In Chemistry \u2013 An Introduction<\/em>.\u00a0 We will be back to blogging when the chapter deadlines have finally passed. Meanwhile, at the link below is posted a presentation that might be titled:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>An <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Illustrated<\/span> Guide to How the Brain Solves Problems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why Science and Engineering Major Enrollments Have Fallen<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>and How We Can Fix Them<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>at \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chemreview.net\/pdfs\/ChemEd2015Post.pdf\"><strong> www.chemreview.net\/pdfs\/ChemEd2015Post.pdf<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A question from the slides:\u00a0 For 80,000 Virginia 9th-grade students each year taking the Stanford 9 standardized test, as shown in the graph below, scores in <em>math reasoning<\/em> went <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>way up<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Why did skills in <em>solving<\/em> <em>calculations<\/em> go <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>way down<\/em><\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>Ponder!\u00a0 Then check the link above to see what science says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WordPlosVALand-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-476\" src=\"http:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WordPlosVALand-copy-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft Word - WordPlosIowaLand.docx\" width=\"589\" height=\"414\" data-wp-pid=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WordPlosVALand-copy-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WordPlosVALand-copy-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WordPlosVALand-copy-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WordPlosVALand-copy-781x550.jpg 781w, https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WordPlosVALand-copy-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WordPlosVALand-copy-1200x845.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A break from blogging has been required for work on the second edition of Calculations In Chemistry \u2013 An Introduction.\u00a0 We will be back to blogging when the chapter deadlines have finally passed. Meanwhile, at the link below is posted&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}