Developing Your Skills in Critical Thinking An Integrated Approach

Description

This companion book, “Developing Your Skills in Critical Thinking,” is a carefully planned Integrated Workbook, consisting of sixteen (16) tests specifically designed to:

• foster and improve reasoning and problem solving skills
• assess and expand students’ vocabulary
• provide practice in the use of expressions , analogies, numerical series, equations, graphs, logical reasoning, decoding and visual discriminations skills
• develop comprehension skills of drawing conclusions, inferring ideas and distinguishing statements of facts from opinion
• some items provide the opportunity for students to explain the reason for their choice

At the beginning of each test are Brain teasers. The purpose of which is to stimulate the thinking process as students decipher hidden meanings of given symbols and expressions.

In addition, students  are given the opportunity to further explore skills in both Science and Social Studies. They are also provide the scope to extend their civic knowledge, exposing to the nature and significance of government and society.

Included in this Workbook are fun-filled activities in the form of: Find a Word, Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku Puzzle and Letter Scrambles to relax the mind.