Okay, I know I am busted I have been snooping on other boards. :angel: There is a lot of people who post what they are using next year and so forth and everyone has some time of "logic" down for a subject. What am I missing here? Things like Introduction to Logic. I am soooooo confused! Do I need to be teaching this? I don't understand how I am going to fit in much more with out schooling all day long.:lol: So, can you ladies please explain this to me in terms I will understand? You all do that so well, that is why I as so many questions.
For me personally, there are two reasons behind a study of "logic". First of all, we are trying to follow a "classical" method of study. In this method, we see that children are grouped into the way they learn by age. The "elementary" stage is referred to as the "grammar" stage, where children should learn the basics of each subject - memorizing math facts, learning the phonics or parts of speech or sentence structure, the basic Bible stories, and develop a love of reading and learning. The next stage is termed "logic," where kiddos naturally question everything. At this point, we teach them to use that inquisitive nature to discover answers for themselves - researching and analyzing information. (The last stage is rhetoric, where they learn to communicate those findings. This is way over-simplified. LOL) A second answer, in our case, is that my oldest ds has some reading comprehension/language processing issues. Taking a simple riddle and showing how to take each part and examine it and then put those things back together to draw a conclusion has proved to be a tremendous help not only in his cognizant thinking skills, and of course in reading comprehension, but also in problem solving skills of any subject. SO. Not everyone teaches logic specifically. I'm doing it in our house because it is a needed, deficient area in my kiddos. (Which is part of why I like the classical model so much. I see that it DOES fit MY kiddos, but don't think that's probably true for EVERYONE. My kids are very analytical, very rules and lists based, left-brained - so it works well for us to take logical steps to get to the 'creative' side!)
OH...... So, when he is done with the last stage of his grammar next year, this would be my next step. Awesome!!!! Thank you so much. I understand now!!!
You could teach your child how to build a proper argument: virtualschool.edu/mon/SocialConstruction/Logic.html You could do lessons in logic fallacies: philosophy.lander.edu/logic/syllabus_fallacy.html Just to give a couple of ideas.
http://www.cathyduffyreviews.com/critical-thinking/critical-thinking--index.htm this is a link from Cathy duffy's review website, she explains why she thinks logic should be taught and when in her book. I actually just read about this yesterday which is why I know it LOL. I only have a 2 and 4 yo there is no logic in our house now!!!!!
For 7th/8th grade and up the Fallacy Detective is a really good book for teaching logic. Sd did some of it last year and really enjoyed it even though she said she did not want to learn any logic.
oooohhhh...awesome link. I took logic in college. Hated it. LOL. Yet, I do think there is merit in teaching it....glad this was brought up so I can keep that in mind.
YES! That's it! I looked at that site (thanks for posting that!) and found the other Logic series we used (this is from another thread but fits here since DaLynn is on this thread also). It was Mind Benders. We went through 3 or 4 of those books. My kids liked those better than the Red Herring books.
I had a some logic in a bonehead math class I took in Jr. college. It proved very useful as background when I took statistics later. I think the basics concepts would prove useful to most students. I really helps when considering statistics and arguments in adversiting etc. Helps when considering what politicians and others say. etc etc.
Ah, yes. Mind Benders are some of the ones we have as well. For the younger set, we've enjoyed the Dr. Dooriddles books and will hed into Critical Thinking Press' Red Herring books soon. And I've heard great things about the Fallacy Detective (Christian based) and want to obtain that at some point in the future as well!
