In The A Game, Sufka explains that concept maps are one good way for students to organize the material that they need to learn and going through the process of making a concept map is an effective way to learn it (pp. 44 – 47—in the section “don’t study like a zombie”). We spent a […]
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This semester I did pp. 235 – 238 in Argument & Inference right after section 1.4 (in chapter 1). This is the handout that I used in class: Appendix_A–handout. And I’m not sure if the slides for appendix A got included with the instructor materials for the textbook, so they’re here: Arg-and-Infer–Appendix_A.
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The first few weeks of this semester (F17), I didn’t give my logic students any homework assignments or quizzes to take on their own outside of class (they just had the reading to do), and that turned out to be a mistake. To catch up a bit, I made this worksheet: ch 1 worksheet, emailed […]
Read Morea course schedule for Argument & Inference
Here is the schedule I’m using this fall (2017) for my Intro to Logic course (with Argument & Inference as the primary text): Logic – F17 – schedule. In addition to Arg & Infer, I’m also using The A Game: Nine Steps to Better Grades (written by my friend Ken Sufka), and so that’s on the […]
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a spreadsheet for calculating probabilities
This spreadsheet can be used to find the probability when two, three, four, five, six, and ten individuals are selected from a population. Select “read more” to access the link. ch6 – probabilities
Read Morea spreadsheet for creating populations
This is an Excel spreadsheet that can be used to create new populations for chapters 5 and 6. Ch5–pop_two_variables
Read MoreA Spreadsheet for Bayes’ Rule
A spreadsheet that does the calculation for Bayes’ rule. Bayes
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