Le passwords they are said in automatic mode, we express them without thinking about how they are written. If we say the word "flowerbed" for example, it does not occur to us that it is a panvocalic word, that is, that it contains all the vowels, but we think of it based on what it represents. Certainly this way of expressing language is necessary to be fast and efficient. However, stop and analyze the composition of words can help both concentration both remember them better, but also to find other similar ones for extend the availability of words in our vocabulary that we commonly use when we speak.
We are at the twenty-first episode of the column "Mental gymnastics" for a "winning brain”, the result of the collaboration of FIRST online Professor Giuseppe Alfredo Iannoccari, neuropsychologist, professor at the State University of Milan and president of Assomensana, the association for the development and enhancement of mental activities. Every Sunday A stimulating mental gymnastics exercise is proposed on FIRSTonline a different mental ability. In the banner on the right of our home page or here all the exercises already published, which have stimulated, are grouped together each time a different ability of our brain.
Let's remember the basic rules
For each exercise you will be shown:
- which cognitive functions it stimulates
- what purpose does it serve in everyday life
- delivery to carry out the exercise
- how long should the execution time be?
- how to calculate the score
- the finish line for an optimal score
- how to make it more empowering
- which variations to adopt to continue doing so
Mental gymnastics exercise number 21: The “Number Words”
This week we propose an exercise for the column "The winning brain" which develops and strengthens the following mental skills: language, concentration and processing speed. To train the ability to analyze words and improve, I propose the exercise I called "numeric words”. If you think there aren't many, know that the only words that contain the number "two" are almost 200!
Delivery: Find 10 words that contain a number in any position. Example: Duel, Four Eyes, Turnover, etc. It is not worth writing the numbers as: four hundred, thirty-three, etc.
Execution time: 180 seconds.
Score: 10 points for each word.
Traguardo: Score at least 100 points in 180 seconds.
Strengthening: find at least three words with each number in less than 180 sec.
variants: Find words that contain two numbers.
Call: Write the number words you found in the comments
