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Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Liar Truthteller Brain Teaser
Video explains how to solve a brain teaser involving two doors, with treasure behind one of the doors. Two people guard the doors. The first is honest and always tells the truth. The second lies and never tells the truth. What question,...
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Alien Abduction Brain Teaser
Video explains how to solve a brain teaser involving ten people who have been abducted by aliens. The people are arranged single-file, facing the same direction. Each person is wearing either a purple or green hat. No one can see the...
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Toggler Brain Teaser
Video explaining how to solve a brain teaser involving five people. Four of the people are togglers--they alternate between lying and telling the truth--and the fifth person always tells the truth. The goal of the teaser is to figure out...
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Blue Forehead Room
Video explains the following brain teaser: One-hundred perfect logicians are blindfolded and each has their forehead painted blue. They all enter a room with the lights off, sit in a circle, and the lights are turned on. Each logician...
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Light Bulb Switching Brain Teaser
Video explains how to solve the following brain teaser: One hundred light bulbs are arranged in a row. Each light bulb can be either on or off. On the first pass of the row, each bulb is switched on. On the second pass, every other bulb...
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: 3 D Path Counting Brain Teaser
Video explains how to solve the following brain teaser: Starting in the upper left rear block of a 3x3 cube, how many different ways are there to get to the bottom right front block of the cube, with movement restricted to moving to the...
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Blue Forehead Room Solution
Video explains the solution to the following brain teaser: One-hundred perfect logicians are blindfolded and each has their forehead painted blue. They all enter a room with the lights off, sit in a circle, and the lights are turned on....
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Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Path Counting Brain Teaser
Video explains how to solve the following brain teaser: Starting in the upper left hand corner of a 6x6 grid, how many different ways are there to get to the bottom right corner of the grid, with movement restricted to moving to the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Essays
This tutorial focuses on argumentative essays, longer writings on a well-researched topic with the writer arguing one side of the topic, free of fallacies, and providing several claims. A short YouTube clip of Monty Python shows the...
Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: Riding at a Constant Speed [Pdf]
Assess students understanding of proportional relationships with this assessment using speed.
Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: Art Class [Pdf]
Students demonstrate understanding of proportional relationships when completing an assessment.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: What's Your Angle? Lesson Plan [Pdf]
Use an angle wheel to make estimates of the measures of various angles. Printable lesson.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Driving With Djikstra
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to one of the prominent algorithms in graph theory used to find shortest paths -- the Djikstra Algorithm. The lesson includes four graphs of increasing...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Rhetorical Landscape: Persuasive Writing
This lesson focuses on how to write a persuasive or argumenatative essay. It provides links to a "Persuasive Support" handout, a 7-page PDF on "Writing the Persuasive Essay," and Purdue Owl's "Argumentative Essays."
ABCya
Ab Cya: Light on 2
Who turned off the lights? Well, we'll need your help turning them back on. Use logic and reasoning to light up the rooms with the different tools provided. Are you bright enough to complete this challenging puzzle game?
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Instant Insanity
Excellent interactive challenge working with cube nets to stack them in a specific order. Manipulate the cubes online to solve the problem.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Logical Appeals
This lesson focuses on using logical appeals in persuasive speeches including inductive and deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning and associative reasoning, forming a rational appeal, and errors in reasoning-formal and informal.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sufficient Assumptions Learn More
Some questions in the Logical Reasoning section ask you to identify a sufficient assumption -- that is, an assumption that would guarantee that a conclusion follows logically from the given support. How do we recognize Sufficient...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Methods of Reasoning
A list (with examples) of common errors in logic including the following: non sequiturs, hasty generalization circular argument, ad hominem, ad populum, and red herring.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Disputes Learn More
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the LSAT. This section provides information about how to infer, and then approach, a dispute question in the "Logical Reasoning" section.
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Khan Academy: Identify a Flaw Worked Example
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a 'Flaw' question on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT. [5:02]
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Khan Academy: Identify a Flaw Video Lesson
Watch an explanation of how to approach identify the flaw questions on the Logical Reasoning section of the LSAT. [7:36]
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Khan Academy: Reasoning Beyond the Text
This video lesson from Khan Academy and the Association of American Medical Colleges provides study content for the MCAT. The purpose of this video is to help you understand the reasoning beyond the text questions a bit better these are...
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Khan Academy: Helpful to Know Quick Guide
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the LSAT. This section provides a quick guide about how to identify useful-to-know-information in the "Logical Reasoning" section.