The Basics of Critical Thinking

The Basics of Critical Thinking
The Basics of Critical Thinking is one of our favorite books from The Critical Thinking Co. This workbook’s color illustrations, engaging storylines, and clear explanations teach your student how to think. He'll learn about common argument forms and practice the important skill of identifying and evaluating evidence. The Basics of Critical Thinking teaches such a vital skill that your student just might find that it's the part of this year’s schoolwork that he uses most throughout the rest of his life. Plus, he will have such a blast completing it!

Although this book teaches common argument forms, its primary focus is identifying and evaluating evidence – the very basis of critical thinking. Most propaganda, advertising schemes, legal trickery, and bad science are not the result of complex arguments; they are the result of half-truths and simple arguments. The Basics of Critical Thinking utilizes an engaging, yet far from juvenile, approach to provide your student with the tools to see through such false arguments. Appropriate for students as young as 4th grade and up through 9th grade.

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Topics

What Is Critical Thinking?

Conclusions and Decisions

Beliefs and Claims

Finding (Identifying) Evidence

Evaluating Evidence

Inferring and Inferences

Facts and Opinions

Facts and Probable Truths

False and Probably False

Facts, Probably True, and Probably False

Venn Diagrams

Logical Connectives

Advertising

Agreements and Contracts

Common Errors in Reasoning

Arguments

Valid and Invalid Arguments

Fallacies

Publisher Information

Publisher: Critical Thinking Co
Author: Michael O. Baker
Pages: 134 student pages, and answers included in the back
Reproducible: Yes
ISBN: 9781601445070
Faith-Based: No