Mynyel Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 OK I (erm we) tried Memoria Press Traditional Logic.. both dd and I were :blink:. So I have Critical Thinking Level 1 (by The Critical Thinking Co.). We went through Lesson one just fine. Lesson 2 hit with a vengeance. I want to like it but I am either missing something or it just is *NOT* explained well. They are in the "If P then Q" and so on, using the arrows and ~. I don't get it. If I don't get it how am I supposed to teach it? Can someone either help me out here (even through pm!) or please, please recommend a logic program that had very, very, very small steps. I wasn't taught logic in school. I think it is important for good thinking skills, but I just can't wrap my head around it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithr Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 This is a VERY inexpensive Catholic on line class, but you certainly don't have to be Catholic to take it and I don't know if being Catholic pops up in the samples. You might want to check it out. The class starts on Monday! (tomorrow!) Maybe you can still sign up. My kids took logic through these folks and it was fun! Every Monday you get a lesson, you work on it anytime you want during the week. After the lesson there is a quiz. It can be totally self-teaching. The guy who wrote the lessons does an excellent job of explaining things to kids. If you have a question about something you can just ask him and he'll tell you! Anyway, here is the address:http://lphrc.net/courses.html#Logic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go_go_gadget Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 You could try a PC game like Rocky's Boots, which is ancient but can run through an emulator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReneTL Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 We're also moving through the Critical Thinking book VERY slowly! I didn't have logic training either, but fortunately, I do some computer programming, so if/then isn't unfamiliar territory for me. However, more days than not, it kicks my booty and we just put it away for the day. There is NO WAY that we will finish the first book this year, let alone Book 2 as SWB suggests. I know none of that answers your original questions, but here is our plan for next year since DD is only in 6th grade this year. I think we'll give Classical Academic Press's Logic sequence a try. We really like their Latin. They have a set of DVD's and the sample chapters have a sequence from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (the witch burning scene) as an example of faulty logic. I'm sold! I'm also :bigear: for any other suggestions. Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Well, if you can swing it financially, I'm pretty sure Memoria Press has an online class for logic as part of their academy. I wish I lived near you. I loved logic in high school and college (I seriously considered a philosophy major at one point) and I'd be happy to teach it to her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morosophe Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 First off, for an easier workbook approach to logic, have you considered the [/url]Blast Off with Logic series from Prufrock Press? I've had good experiences with Prufrock Press so far, so I don't hesitate to recommend it! It looks like Orbiting with Logic ends about where your trouble began with Critical Thinking Level 1, so you could then move back to that. Or, here's Nathaniel Bluedorn's recommendations for learning logic. (Not all of them are even his books!) If you're interested in just learning this stuff for yourself and then using what you've paid good money for, Blue Storm, a "mostly free introduction to critical thinking and elementary sentential logic," might help. (By mostly free, they mean they'll take donations, in the form of buying from Amazon through them.) Or maybe you'll prefer this free logic textbook written by Waner and Costanoble to supplement their math texts; it seems fairly clear and straightforward. Here's a free course on symbolic logic from the philosophy department of Lander University, although, sadly, it's using slightly different symbols. All of the links in this paragraph were written for adults, though, not children. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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