This popular book shows students how to increase their power to analyze problems and to comprehend what they read. It outlines and illustrates the method good problem solvers use in attacking complex ideas and provides practice in applying it to a variety of comprehension and reasoning questions.
This popular book shows students how to increase their power to analyze problems and to comprehend what they read. It outlines and illustrates the method good problem solvers use in attacking complex ideas and provides practice in applying it to a variety of comprehension and reasoning questions.
Arthur Whimbey (deceased), a pioneer in the thinking skills movement, was a textbook author, consultant, and outstanding instructional designer whose creed from the 1960s was that intelligence can be taught. Dr. Whimbey was a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis, director of the TRAC Institute, on the staff of The New School for the Learning Sciences. Jack Lochhead, an active innovator, developer and researcher in the field of Cognitive Process Instruction, is Founding Director of DeLiberate Thinking, a company dedicated to helping schools, public agencies and private business develop instructional programs in the basic cognitive skills and was director of the Science Center at TERC in Cambridge, MA. He has had teaching positions at the University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, Harvard University and the University of the Western Cape. Ron Narode (deceased), is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Science Teacher Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Portland State University Graduate School of Education. Previously he taught at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and at the Universidad do Minho in Portugal during a Fulbright Professorship.
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Preface to the Seventh Edition Preface to the Sixth Edition 1. Test Your Mind-See How It Works 2. Errors in Reasoning 3. Problem-Solving Methods 4. Verbal Reasoning Problems 5. Six Myths About Reading 6 Analogies 7. Writing Relationship Sentences 8. How to Form Analogies 9. Analysis of Trends and Patterns 10. Deductive and Hypothetical Thinking Through Days of the Week 11. Solving Mathematical Word Problems 12. Open Ended Problem Solving 13. The Post-WASI Test 14. Meeting Academic and Workplace Standards: How This Book Can Help 15. How to Use Pair Problem Solving: Advice for Teachers, Parents, Tutors, and Helpers of All Sorts Appendix I. Answer Key Appendix II. Compute Your Own IQ References
Preface to the Seventh Edition Preface to the Sixth Edition 1. Test Your Mind-See How It Works 2. Errors in Reasoning 3. Problem-Solving Methods 4. Verbal Reasoning Problems 5. Six Myths About Reading 6 Analogies 7. Writing Relationship Sentences 8. How to Form Analogies 9. Analysis of Trends and Patterns 10. Deductive and Hypothetical Thinking Through Days of the Week 11. Solving Mathematical Word Problems 12. Open Ended Problem Solving 13. The Post-WASI Test 14. Meeting Academic and Workplace Standards: How This Book Can Help 15. How to Use Pair Problem Solving: Advice for Teachers, Parents, Tutors, and Helpers of All Sorts Appendix I. Answer Key Appendix II. Compute Your Own IQ References
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