Thinking Skills
Thinking Skills
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Author(s): Butterworth, John
ISBN No.: 9780521521499
Pages: 280
Year: 200505
Format: Perfect (Trade Paper)
Price: $ 43.68
Status: Out Of Print

THINKING SKILLS: PART 1: Critical Thinking: 1. What is argument�; 2. Recognising arguments; 3. Responding to arguments; 4. Analysing arguments; 5. More complex arguments; 6. Claims; 7. Conclusions; 8.


Drawing conclusions; inference; 9. Assumptions; 10. Sound or unsound�; 11. Finding Flaws; 12. Challenging an argument; 13. Lending support; 14. Explanation; 15. Looking at evidence; 16.


More evidence; 17. Case study; Who's telling the truth; 18. Case study: Collision course; 19. Introducing longer arguments; 20. Applying analysis skills; 21. Critical evaluation; 22. Further argument; 23. The appliance of science; 24.


Conditions; 25. Principles; 26. An argument under the microscope; 27. Synthesis; 28. Critical marking; PART 2: Problem Solving: 1. What do we mean by a 'problem'�; 2. How do we solve problems�; 3. Selecting and using information; 4.


Processing data; 5. Finding methods of solution; 6. Solving problems by searching; 7. Spatial reasoning; 8. Recognising patterns; 9. Making choices and decisions; 10. Using models; 11. Combining skills - using imagination; 12.


Using other mathematical methods; 13. Use of more complex diagrams; 14. Modelling and investigating; 15. Analysis: hypotheses, reasons and inference; 16. Have you solved it�; Solutions to problems; Glossary; Index.


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