Logic Curriculum

The Argument Builder: Teacher?s Edition includes the entire student text, answer keys to exercises, teaching tips, and reproducible tests and quizzes.

For those homeschool parents and teachers who have felt ill-equipped to teach logic, there is no more excuse! Traditional Logic is now available on DVD. Memoria Press debut video course features the author, Martin Cothran, teaching his popular logic course. With graphic slides illustrating key points in the text, Mr. Cothran covers every important aspect of the book explaining difficult concepts and illustrating important ideas with plenty of on-screen graphics. The Logic DVDs teach directly to the student and cover each lesson in the book as well as the difficult exercises. Using Mr. Cothran's video instruction, you can add logic to your curriculum with zero additional prep time in your already busy schedule. Used along with the Traditional Logic text, this new video course will enable your student to learn this important subject by bringing a logic teacher into your home. The course is ideal for students from 7th Grade to adult. Traditional Logic I: 2 DVD Set with 6.5 hours of instruction Traditional Logic II: 2 DVD Set with 7 hours of instruction

This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools we give you inthis book to solve thinking problems.

-When it is dumb to argue

-Using the scientific method

-Five rules of brainstorming

-Who has a reason to lie?

-How to analyze opposing viewpoints

-How to analyze evidence and sources

-How to list reasons why you believe something

-And much more

We wrote this book for children and adults who want to learn logic and critical thinking skills.

The Thinking Toolbox follows the same style as The Fallacy Detective with lessons and exercises and an answer key in the back.

Features:

-Fun to use not dry like a math textbook

-Can be used after The Fallacy Detective

-Introductory teaches skills you can use right away

-Self-teaching format

-For ages twelve and older

-Over 60 cartoon illustrations by Richard LaPierre

2009 Edition: More Fallacies, More Cartoons.

What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic -- a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.

A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.

This is an easy book for learning to spot common errors in reasoning.

For ages twelve through adult.

Fun to use -- learn skills you can use right away.

Exercises with answer key.

Covers logical fallacies and propaganda techniques.

Peanuts, Dilbert, and Calvin and Hobbes cartoons.

Includes The Fallacy Detective Game.

2009 Edition introduces the special pleading and slippery slope fallacies and includes many new illustrations.

Logic is the art of reasoning well - of learning to think God's thoughts after Him. In this book, James Nance builds on the foundation of Introductory Logic for Christian and Home Schools to help students explore the more challenging terrain of formal, propositional logic.

This Answer Key provides answers to all of the standard student text exercises. Also included are answers and examples for selected exercises in the "Additional Exercises" section found at the end of each lesson. Required for course.