Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

2.10 Flaws and fallacies 75 [7] I knew the Bayside was bad news. I’ve never liked the food there, and certainly never eaten the ...

76 Unit 2 Critical thinking: the basics fallacy. There are not two different fallacies there: just two different ways of describ ...

2.10 Flaws and fallacies 77 Summary • An argument is flawed if the reason or reasons given are untrue, or give inadequate supp ...

78 Unit 2 Critical thinking: the basics 4 Start a file, or database, of common reasoning errors by listing the ones you have ...

3.1 What do we mean by a ‘problem’? 79 What do we mean by a ‘problem’? 3.1 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills Consider the act ...

80 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills • relating one set of information to another in a different form – this involves using ...

3.1 What do we mean by a ‘problem’? 81 Of course, you could do the whole thing by guesswork, but you might get it all wrong and, ...

82 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills 3.2 How do we solve problems? We have seen that a problem consists of a set of informati ...

3.2 How do we solve problems? 83 Commentary The sum of the charges on the itemised bill is $453. This is $18 less than her bill, ...

84 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills having a ‘Buy two get a third free’ offer on this item. The supermarket does not want to ...

3.2 How do we solve problems? 85 continues until a winner is established. The results of the first count are shown below. How ma ...

86 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills Selecting and using information 3.3 In one very simple form, problem solving involves un ...

3.3 Selecting and using information 87 what the graph means. Then, based on the question, one must interpret the graph in the re ...

88 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills Diagrammatic information The map is a simple representation of the only roads joining fo ...

3.3 Selecting and using information 89 3 The table below shows the finishing positions in the Contrey handball league. The fi ...

90 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills 3.4 Processing data In the previous chapter we looked at solving problems by selecting t ...

3.4 Processing data 91 Commentary This question has a lot of data presented verbally. We must identify the important variables t ...

92 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills Summary • We have seen that, for some problems, the important data is given clearly an ...

3.5 Finding methods of solution 93 3.5 Finding methods of solution The previous chapter dealt with problems for which the method ...

94 Unit 3 Problem solving: basic skills Commentary This is another problem where an intermediate calculation is necessary. In or ...