Mar Gary R (Stony Brook Univ Usa)
Mar Gary R (Stony Brook Univ Usa) - Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking As Creative Problem Solving - Paperback
Mar Gary R (Stony Brook Univ Usa) - Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking As Creative Problem Solving - Paperback
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Description: The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B. C. - 8 B. C.) wrote Control your mind or it will control you. In today's society we are faced with more information and more complex information than ever. Faced with making decisions we can feel overwhelmed and helpless. One way to become less helpless to gain control over our lives is to gain control over our own thinking. We can feel helpless when faced with this barrage of information opinions data and conflicting arguments if we lack the skills to quickly grasp and critically evaluate them. This book is designed to impart these kinds of skills. Any course in a university should do more than teach information in nearly every field 'facts become obsolete quickly. The goals of Thinking Matters are to help you: The text is punctuated with exercises or 'personal experiments to challenge and stimulate your curiosity. These exercises may take the form of an inventory to be taken a puzzle to be solved or some thoughts to ponder. The first module Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking as Creative Problem Solving introduces the student to all the above topics logic probability argument forms and fallacies ethical reasoning algorithms and computational thinking through logic puzzles and games and mathematical magic tricks.
Title: Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking As Creative Problem Solving
Author(s): Mar Gary R (Stony Brook Univ Usa)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Barcode: 9789811216244
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 8/24/2021
Category: Maths For Scientists
Description: The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B. C. - 8 B. C.) wrote Control your mind or it will control you. In today's society we are faced with more information and more complex information than ever. Faced with making decisions we can feel overwhelmed and helpless. One way to become less helpless to gain control over our lives is to gain control over our own thinking. We can feel helpless when faced with this barrage of information opinions data and conflicting arguments if we lack the skills to quickly grasp and critically evaluate them. This book is designed to impart these kinds of skills. Any course in a university should do more than teach information in nearly every field 'facts become obsolete quickly. The goals of Thinking Matters are to help you: The text is punctuated with exercises or 'personal experiments to challenge and stimulate your curiosity. These exercises may take the form of an inventory to be taken a puzzle to be solved or some thoughts to ponder. The first module Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking as Creative Problem Solving introduces the student to all the above topics logic probability argument forms and fallacies ethical reasoning algorithms and computational thinking through logic puzzles and games and mathematical magic tricks.
Title: Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking As Creative Problem Solving
Author(s): Mar Gary R (Stony Brook Univ Usa)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Barcode: 9789811216244
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 8/24/2021
Category: Maths For Scientists
