Gardner holds intelligences are not interchangeable, so one intelligence cannot substitute for another in learning a domain¶

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q2 i? Per Willingham's summary of Gardner's view, a student low in logical-mathematical but high in musical intelligence cannot substitute musical for logical-mathematical intelligence and understand math through music. → Peariso 2008

Evidence¶

Peariso 2008¶

Peariso, J. F. (2008). Multiple Intelligences or Multiply Misleading: The Critic's View of the Multiple Intelligences Theory. Liberty University. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED500515

q2 · i? · review · r1

The review attributes this to Willingham (2004) summing up Gardner's view that the musically minded student must eventually use the appropriate representation to understand math. Reported second-hand as an interpretation, not a tested result.

"the individual low in logic-mathematical intelligence but high in musical intelligence cannot somehow substitute the latter for the former and understand math through music"

Discussion¶

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