identifying+patterns

Games in which you have to identfy patterns
It seems that if you wish to be an expert, you need to be able to recognise and distiguish important patterns of information. The national research councils research on expertise suggests that "students should be provided with learning experiences that specifically enhance their ability to recognise meaningful patterns of information (All information from national research council 2000 p.36) Please contribute to this page if you can recommend any games which could enhance this skill. Information, links and general thoughts, about this topic are

**__Chess__**
People who play Chess develop an ability to recognise patterns of meaningful information. Expert teachers, mathematicians, physicists, and people working in domains such as electronic circuitry, radiology and computer programming show these same skills as master chess players. For example chess player who are allowed to view a chess game for only a second are usually able to reconstruct the game from memory, wheras novices are not. This is due to their ability to 'chunk' meaningful information. Similarly electronic technicians can reproduce circuit diagrams after only a few seconds of viewing a complex circuit board. Experts and novices organise their information differently, and it apears that playing chess increases your abillity to identify and organise information like the experts!