Hedgehog Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 How much time do your 7th and 5th graders spend on Logic? I'm wanting to get some idea of how much time is needed. My 7th grader is struggling with the Red Herrings book. I'm wondering whether to get her Building Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking Book 1, or Art of Argument. My 5th grader will be starting out by doing some Mind Benders. Any btdt advice? Experience? Opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithr Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I am more relaxed about exact time spent. I think you can take your time going through logic stuff and there is no need to do anything more than work through material at a comfortable pace. I am planning to teach a once a week class to both my 5th and7th graders using Harry stottlemeier. I think we'll have loads of fun. Have you thought of making logic more discussion based, rather than workbook based? My now 16 yo loved The Art of Argument and read it in a couple of days! But these two children get a lot more from conversation than reading or workbooks. I find they are less frustrated that way and it sticks better than just checking off certain number os workbook pages a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanie Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 We didn't do any formal logic in 5th grade. We start with the Traditional Logic series from MP in either 6th or 7th grade. I expect my 7th grader to spend 30-40 minutes per day on logic this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 We did logic twice a week for about 30 min each day. We were using the Logic Countdown series and really enjoyed it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 Thanks for the opinions :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 We did Logic/Critical Thinking as an informal "brain warm-up" to our mornings all together -- about 3 mornings a week, we'd do 2-3 pages from various types of resources; it would take about 10-12 minutes per morning. Resources we especially enjoyed/learned from: - Logic Liftoff (gr. 5-6) and Orbiting with Logic (gr. 6-8) - - Mindbenders (or Perplexors -- same thing, but a less expensive option) - Dr. Funster Think-A-Minutes (Critical Thinking Press) - Dr. Funster's Creative Thinking Puzzlers (Critical Thinking Press) - Critical Thinking Activities in Pattern, Image, Logic (gr. 4-6 or gr. 7-12) -- by Seymour - Think-A-Grams (Critical Thinking Press) - Word Winks; More Word Winks (like Think-A-Grams) -- pub. by Mindware - Plexors, More Plexers (like Think-A-Grams) -- by Seymour - 10-Minute Critical-Thinking Activities for English (gr. 5-12) -- by Eaton; Walch Pub. Print from online, or do online puzzles: - crosswords, word jumbles, anagrams - codes, cryptograms - sudoku puzzles - ken-ken puzzles Also, having a family game night once a week is a great, informal way to include Logic skills: - Rush Hour (solo activity) - Mastermind - Amazing Labrynth - 221 B. Baker Street - Checkers - Chess - Boggle - Scrabble - Quarto - Tetrus - Risk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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