The Thinking Toolbox
The Thinking Toolbox
$19.97
Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools you are given in this book to solve thinking problems. For ages 12 and up.
Features
- Fun to use – not dry like a math textbook
- Can be used after or before The Fallacy Detective
- Introductory – teaches skills you can use right away
- Self-teaching format
- For ages twelve and older
- Over 60 cartoon illustrations by Richard LaPierre
Table of Contents
- How to Use This Book
- Tools for Thinking
- A Thinking Tool
- A Discussion, a Disagreement, an Argument, and a Fight
- When It Is Dumb to Argue
- Fact, Inference, or Opinion
- Finding the Premises and Conclusion
- How to List Reasons Why You Believe Something
- How to Defeat Your Own Argument
- When Not to Use Logic
- Tools for Opposing Viewpoints
- Using the Opposing Viewpoints Chart
- Opposing Viewpoints Are Everywhere
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Evidence
- You Can’t Believe Everything You Hear
- Are You Primary or Secondary?
- Who Has a Reason to Lie?
- Corroborating Evidence
- Mystery of the Stolen Manoot
- Stir Plot until Thickened
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Does a Possibly Make a Probably?
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Puzzling Developments
- Tools for Science
- Mole the Scientist
- Tools that Help Scientists Do Their Job
- How to Be a Keen Observer
- Brainstorming
- Hypothesis Is a Huge Word
- How to Prove You Are Wrong
- A Good Experiment
- How to Analyze Data
- Listen and Learn
- Pseudoscience
- A Little Project
- Projects
- “Herbal the Verbal Gerbil” Game
- The Mystery of the Large Letter Library
- Answer Key
Book Title | The Thinking Toolbox |
Publisher: | MISC STL |
Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools you are given in this book to solve thinking problems. For ages 12 and up.
Features
- Fun to use – not dry like a math textbook
- Can be used after or before The Fallacy Detective
- Introductory – teaches skills you can use right away
- Self-teaching format
- For ages twelve and older
- Over 60 cartoon illustrations by Richard LaPierre
Table of Contents
- How to Use This Book
- Tools for Thinking
- A Thinking Tool
- A Discussion, a Disagreement, an Argument, and a Fight
- When It Is Dumb to Argue
- Fact, Inference, or Opinion
- Finding the Premises and Conclusion
- How to List Reasons Why You Believe Something
- How to Defeat Your Own Argument
- When Not to Use Logic
- Tools for Opposing Viewpoints
- Using the Opposing Viewpoints Chart
- Opposing Viewpoints Are Everywhere
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Evidence
- You Can’t Believe Everything You Hear
- Are You Primary or Secondary?
- Who Has a Reason to Lie?
- Corroborating Evidence
- Mystery of the Stolen Manoot
- Stir Plot until Thickened
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Does a Possibly Make a Probably?
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Puzzling Developments
- Tools for Science
- Mole the Scientist
- Tools that Help Scientists Do Their Job
- How to Be a Keen Observer
- Brainstorming
- Hypothesis Is a Huge Word
- How to Prove You Are Wrong
- A Good Experiment
- How to Analyze Data
- Listen and Learn
- Pseudoscience
- A Little Project
- Projects
- “Herbal the Verbal Gerbil” Game
- The Mystery of the Large Letter Library
- Answer Key