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3. Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking As Creative Problem Solving Sinopsis : The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B.C.&#82118B.C.) wrote, &quotConrol your mind or it will control you.&quotIn 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 &#8212to gain control over our lives &#8212is 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 &#8212in nearly every field, 'facts' become obsolete quickly. The goals of Thinking Matters are to help you: to be more creative, fluid, and perceptive in solving problems to identify the implicit premises, fallacies, or moral principles that are presupposed in the arguments of others to be able to advocate for what you believe by effectively refuting opposing arguments and presenting persuasive arguments of your own to understand the logic of scientific testing to distinguish between science and pseudo-science to develop your own style and intuitive powers of logical deduction, probabilistic reasoning, and computational thinking. 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 &#8212logic,

4. probability, argument forms and fallacies, ethical reasoning, algorithms, and computational thinking &#8212through logic puzzles and games and mathematical magic tricks.

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7. Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking As Creative Problem Solving copy link in description The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B.C.&#82118B.C.) wrote, &quotConrol your mind or it will control you.&quotIn 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 &#8212to gain control over our lives &#8212is 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 &#8212in nearly every field, 'facts' become obsolete quickly. The goals of Thinking Matters are to help you: to be more creative, fluid, and perceptive in solving

8. problems to identify the implicit premises, fallacies, or moral principles that are presupposed in the arguments of others to be able to advocate for what you believe by effectively refuting opposing arguments and presenting persuasive arguments of your own to understand the logic of scientific testing to distinguish between science and pseudo-science to develop your own style and intuitive powers of logical deduction, probabilistic reasoning, and computational thinking. 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 &#8212logic, probability, argument forms and fallacies, ethical reasoning, algorithms, and computational thinking &#8212through logic puzzles and games and mathematical magic tricks.