Bell Ringers
Poetic writing sometimes uses numbers in ways which are not in common use. There are echos of an old system of counting by 20's when a life span is described as 3 score years and 10 rather than 70. How would you interpret 1 and 2 scores?
What is 41
Using the imagination to create novel solutions to problems.
What is abstract thinking?
When using critical thinking skills, you are looking for what is _______, rather than what is ________.
What is implied and stated.
A boy is walking down the road with a doctor. While the boy is the doctor's son, the doctor isn't the boy's father. Then who is the doctor?
The mother
Using a broad generalization to come to a specific conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
On a clock
Most people refer to this as, "thinking outside the box".
What is Creative Thinking?
The implications of my questions.
What is consequences?
Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in canada
What is, he is still alive.
This type of reasoning can help create arguments on a CRT/PRT.
What is deductive reasoning?
A painter is given a task of painting numbers on the doors in a street. There are 100 houses. How many times does he need to paint the number 7?
What is 20
What is Communicative Thinking?
A set of claims to support an assertion.
What is an argument?
If eggs are 12 cents a dozen, how much would 100 eggs cost?
What is $1.00?
The sum of three angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. If angle 1 is 65 degrees, and angle 2 is 55 degrees, then angle 3 is 60 degrees.
Polly and Dolly have the same parents. Polly's son Wally is married to Dolly's daughter Molly. They have 1 daughter Holly. Holly is constructing a family tree. What is the larget possible number of great great grandparents that Holly will discover?
What is 12.
Also known as, "Problem-Solving Thinking".
What is the primary difference between an assumption versus an inference?
An inference requires a basis of evidence and reasoning, while an assumption is something accepted as true without proof.
An invention that allows people to see through walls?
Since 2x3=6 and 6x7=42, I predict that an odd number times an even number is always even.
A bus company needs to have 13 buses operating everyday of the week. cleaning and servicing requirements mean that each bus is not available for operating services 2 days per week. what is the smallest number of buses the company must have to ensure that 13 buses can be available everyday.
What is 19
One form of critical thinking inspired a novel, which later became a blockbuster hit.
What is Divergent?
List 4 ways being a critical thinker, can help you throughout life.
Manage and interpret information
Examine exciting ideas and develop new ones
Pose logical arguments
Recognize reliable evidence
Be proactive rather than reactive
Think things through in depth.
Imagine that you are in a sinking row boat surrounded by killer sharks, how would you survive?
Stop imagining.
Which type of reasoning does a CRT best emulate, and explain how this is true.
Deductive reasoning.