Mind map, English is a mind map, also known as mind map, which is an effective graphic thinking tool to express divergent thinking. It is simple, effective and efficient, and it is a practical thinking tool. Mind mapping uses the skills of paying equal attention to graphics and texts, showing the relationship between topics at all levels with hierarchical diagrams of mutual subordination and correlation, and establishing memory links between topic keywords, images and colors.

Mind mapping makes full use of the functions of the left and right brain and the laws of memory, reading and thinking to help people develop in a balanced way between science and art, logic and imagination, thus opening up the infinite potential of the human brain. Therefore, mind mapping has a powerful function of human thinking.

Mind mapping is a visual way of thinking. We know that radioactive thinking is the natural way of thinking of the human brain. Every kind of information that enters the brain, whether it is feelings, memories or ideas-including words, numbers, symbols, smells, food, lines, colors, images, rhythms, notes and so on. -It can be a thinking center, where thousands of joints radiate outward.

Each joint represents a connection with the central theme, and each connection can become another central theme, and then thousands of joint points radiate outward, showing a radioactive three-dimensional structure, and these joint connections can be regarded as your memory, just like neurons in the brain, and are your personal database.

Mind map, also known as brain map, mental map, brainstorming map, inspiration trigger map, concept map, tree map, branch map or thinking map, is a tool for thinking in images and an auxiliary tool for thinking in images.

Mind mapping is the idea of causing visual structure and classification with a central keyword or idea; It uses a central keyword or idea to connect all representative words, ideas, tasks or other related projects into a radial line.

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Mind mapping is an effective and efficient way of thinking. Apply it to the thinking "map" of memory, learning and thinking. Conducive to the divergent thinking of the human brain. Mind mapping has been widely used around the world. Singapore's Ministry of Education has listed mind mapping as a compulsory subject in primary schools, and a large number of top 500 enterprises are also learning mind mapping. China has been using mind mapping for many years.

Since 1980s, mind mapping has been introduced into Chinese mainland. Initially, it was used to help "students with learning difficulties" overcome learning obstacles, and later it was mainly used by the industrial and commercial circles, especially in the field of enterprise training, to improve the learning efficiency and innovative thinking ability of individuals and organizations. Subject teaching, after 52 years of development, has not been widely used in schools.

After fifteen years of research and practice, the thinking visualization research team led by Liu Zhuoyuan of East China Normal University has come to the conclusion that "mind map" is not suitable for direct application in subject teaching.