Reasoning

which can handicap their full thought process. For me, when I am stressed about an unsafe environment, I also shut out others ideas. This means that I cannot move forward in thought processes, which then breaks down my confidence in mathematical reasoning. Many students face this every day, which hinders their learning. I plan to create a safe environment by encouraging individual think time, group discussion, and then full class discussion. This allows all students to have time to reason their…

for Children (WISC-V). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, visual-spatial processing, reasoning ability, and processing speed. The subtest measure different cognitive processing abilities combine to form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed which all together make up the Full Scale IQ score. Daniel obtained a score of 99 (47th percentile), which falls…

Statement of Purpose “How do we ask the turtle to trace out a circle? Remember, it only knows how to walk in straight lines and turn around.” Playing with the Logo turtle on screen in sixth grade was my first exposure to computer science. I was immediately fascinated by the idea of approximating a smooth circle with a regular polygon of, say, 360 sides. Staring at the “circle” on screen, I could not quite digest the fact that it was something produced in a fundamentally different way compared to…

Introduction Coaching and Mentoring are popular tools used in leadership development and sometimes the terms are used interchangeably. Still, many of us are unclear what these words mean or when to use them, or how to identify the differences between these two approaches. A coach is “the act of training staff in business or office practice” whereas a mentor is “the practice of assigning a junior member of staff to the care of a more experienced person who assists him in his career” (Collins,…

involve thinking-about-my-thinking. Second, this reflective thinking must meet high standards; it must be reflective reasoning that is done well” (Nosich 47). To affirm Nosich’s conditions, he employs “the elements of reasoning.” The elements…

Suleman, however, reminded me that there is another major way of interpreting this underlying assumption, as he brought up the fact that many Christians believe that one will be sent to Hell for suicide no matter what his or her reasoning was. Of course this didn’t cause me to drop the religious belief system I possess; it did, however, make me aware of the many different interpretations that can be produced from similar…

While I have only lived on this planet for a relatively brief time, I have been able to get an idea of how our world is progressing as well as what we can do to impact how we change it. As it stands, the world seems to be going downhill with increasing speed. This is largely in part due to the ways in which we interact with others, ourselves, and how we treat the world on a global scale. With the world evolving as we too change, it is fundamentally important that we better ourselves so that the…

thinking habitually and genuinely tries to understand how others think”. I would place myself higher up on the continuum for intellectual empathy because I find myself very often genuinely wanting to understand the way someone is thinking and their reasoning. I was having a conversation with some friends last weekend at a wedding about gay marriage and I genuinely…

Reading Gladwell (2005) book Blink, the writer discusses different scenarios regarding critical thinking. Critical thinking can be several different things, it could mean taking that time to understand the situation and go through the problem solving process to fully understand before making a decision. Additionally, it could mean having the experience and knowledge to understand a situation and how to handle it differently versus someone that is inexperience. Sometimes it is merely trusting…

principles of reasoning have to be applied. The theories in Natural Sciences require key elements such as observations, hypothesis, experiments, evaluation and confirmation. Galileo Galilei for example, 400 years ago set up an experiment to analyze his hypothesis that objects accelerate when they fall. This research was initially conducted by the Arabs, whereas Europeans followed the statement made by the Church that effective conclusions could only be touched by discussions and reasoning.…