How do you use Critical Thinking 1 and 2?

[jeri]

Just receieved this on the recommendation of WTM, but it's not really what I expected. I guess I thought it would be a workbook but it looks like the teacher needs to actually teach it. Can someone walk me through what you have done to get me started? Thanks.

Jeri

[Sunshine State Sue]

We only used CT 1. Most of the time, I would read the section to ds, then we would discuss the questions. Sometimes, he would read it to himself, work through the questions himself, then we would discuss them.

 

HTH!

[jeri]

That's kind of what it was looking like, but I wondered if I was missing something. Did you find it worthwhile?

 

Jeri

[Colleen in NS]

Just receieved this on the recommendation of WTM, but it's not really what I expected. I guess I thought it would be a workbook but it looks like the teacher needs to actually teach it. Can someone walk me through what you have done to get me started? Thanks.

Jeri

 

We just finished both books. It was a little daunting, but basically we just read the lessons and discussed the problems. I got stumped on and finally gave up on ch. 2 about symbols. It didn't affect the rest of it (much). I also let up over the course of the year, and picked and chose among the problems. I didn't go through it thoroughly, but I think it's meant to be a warm up to formal logic. I will pay more attention to the formal logic program.

 

I'm still not sure if I think it's necessary to do. Nice yes, necessary, not sure. But, it was good to keep the critical thinking going for another year, and there were interesting things in it.

[Sunshine State Sue]

That's kind of what it was looking like, but I wondered if I was missing something. Did you find it worthwhile?

 

Jeri

Yes, I found it beneficial. It's meant for group discussion, so didn't work as well for 1 parent and 1 child, but I found it beneficial anyway. I definitely preferred it to Art of Argument and they covered some of the same things.