In this lesson, we'll present a statement involving a group of shapes and then explain how to complete the statement using abstract reasoning...
A simple example of a concrete thinker versus an abstract thinker is to think to the kids books about Amelia Bedelia. She was the maid who would take every order literally. When her boss said to draw the curtain, she would sit down and actually draw them as apposed to closing the curtai...
(I’ve been spending exhausting “quality” summer time with the kids (5 and 2!) and my equally exhausted wife.) I’m not sure exactly where to jump in here, so maybe I’ll try to say more about why I think there’s some plausible version of Ames and Hall’s thesis, vaguely resp...
Logic and reasoning Geometric understanding (especially if you draw your own game board) How to Play Fox and Geese What you need: 2 enthusiastic players A Fox and Geese game board.Download and print ours here, or make your own for some geometry drawing practice. (Use the above photo as a...
I personally think that this fallacy of reasoning (to which I also still remain at times vulnerable) is learned behavior over a lifetime (rather than innate) and may take what seems like an additional lifetime to reverse.You have convinced us than acute insight gained from a common everyday...
Organizing the kissing for the purpose of time-saving and predicting how much time it would take are proposed in this pedagogical note inspired by the entertaining puzzle made by Harbaugh. We also illustrate how this problem-solving case study, requiring no mathematics but careful reasoning, might...
Rather, I believe in teaching them patience and the slow, deliberate, and sometimes dry process of legal reasoning. (2) Accordingly, I felt guilty, like a busy parent buying the kids McDonald's for dinner and sticking them in front of the television when what they really need and deserve...