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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Reasoning Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial on reasoning skills focusing on both inductive and deductive reasoning. Has several examples and exercises with answers and discussion.
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Handout
Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Logical Reasoning

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how logic and reasoning play a part in everyday thinking, and how deductive and inductive reasoning leads investigators to conclusions.
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Activity
Other

Aristotle & Logic: Syllogisms & Inductive Reasoning

For Students 9th - 10th
From a larger college website, this page provides a good description of syllogisms as well as inductive reasoning.
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Article
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Deductive Teaching Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a teaching strategy. An explanation of the deductive teaching strategy is provided, and a deductive teaching approach link is included.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Logical Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on using logical appeals in persuasive speeches including inductive and deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning and associative reasoning, forming a rational appeal, and errors in reasoning-formal and informal.
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Article
University of Utah

University of Utah: History of Psychology: More on Logic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief overview of the definitions of 'inductive' versus 'deductive' reasoning.
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Handout
Philosophy Pages

Philosophy Pages: Categorical Propositions

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduces the method of categorical logic, as used in the deductive reasoning formalized by Aristotle. Author defines important terms very clearly and includes several good examples. A good place to start reading about logic.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Plant Kingdom: Two Approaches to Learn About Nature

For Students 6th - 8th
Take one of two approaches when investigating nature, using either inductive or deductive reasoning.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Odd Squad: Which Agent Are You?

For Students K - 1st
This quiz from Odd Squad will teach your child algebraic thinking by using their deductive reasoning skills. Children can take the Odd Squad Quiz and find out if they are more like Agent Olive or Agent Otto? Or maybe they're like Ms. O....
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
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Graphic
Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot!: Mathematics: The Science of Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
A book excerpt, this page discusses John Venn's "simple, geometric method for checking the validity of syllogisms," with diagrams, examples, and related links.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize English: Reading

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site provides activities, games, tests, and worksheets in reading areas: deduction, dictionaries, poetry, and non-fiction.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reasoning, Deduction, and Your Next Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that includes eight links to pictures, websites, and activities for using reasoning and deduction in a speech.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Rocks and Minerals Find It! Quiz

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about rocks and minerals. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and earth science vocabulary, would work well with...
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Handout
Philosophy Pages

Philosophy Pages: Scientific Explanation

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand how inductive reasoning is used as the structure of scientific explanation, and that it is a deductive argument whose conclusion is the event to be explained.
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Activity
Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Painted Faces

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Mathchallenge offers this mathematical reasoning problem, a one star problem requiring nothing more than a logical mind and paper and pencil, to deduct the painted faces problem
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Scientific Problem Solving

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes scientific problem solving and the scientific method.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Brief Introduction to the Lsat

For Students 9th - 10th
This article covers the basics of the LSAT. The better you know what to expect, the more comfortable you'll feel in your studies-and the more mental bandwidth you'll have to focus on building the skills you'll need to get a great score!
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Statements of Logic

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Statements of Logic flipchart, interactively involves the students first through a series of review question on deductive structure, and then into the meat of conditional statements as well and Venn...
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Handout
Other

Stat Soft: Getting Started With Statistics Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th
Definitions of the basic concepts in statistics. Great for review and discussion or for introduction into topics.
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eBook
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Biology: The Science of Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the concept of scientific reasoning, and compare and contrast hypothesis and theories while understanding the difference between deductive and inductive thinking.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses more on logic and deduction than on formal mathematics. The game of tic-tac-toe is simplified and given different variations, and in each variation students are to...
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Activity
Other

Motif Plays Backgammon: A Game of Strategy

For Students 9th - 10th
A very challenging game of strategy and skill from Backgammon Galore. The student plays backgammon against a computer program. Included is a page on instructions so the student can learn the game.

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