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Handley 75th Anniversary Football Problem
In this football instructional activity, students read clues and use logic to determine the names of football players. This one-page instructional activity contains 16 problems. Answers are provided.
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Aging Problem
In this aging problem, students read a word problem, write an equation, and determine the current age of specified persons. This one-page worksheet contains 1 multi-step problem. The answer is provided at the bottom of the page.
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The Five Houses
In this deductive reasoning learning exercise, students use clues to tell the nationality, beverage, snack, house color and pet of five people.
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The Face Card Problem
In this deductive reasoning worksheet, learners arrange cards to they fit the clues given in the puzzle.
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Deductive Reasoning
Tenth graders investigate deductive reasoning. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders compare and contrast inductive ns deductive reasoning. Students use deductive reasoning to investigate algebraic proof and explore deductive...
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Geometry, Measurement & Reasoning
Students construct two-column proofs. In this geometry instructional activity, students use deductive reasoning and geometric properties to justify given geometric statements. Students compare and contrast proofs.
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Scientific Methods in Biology
In this scientific methods instructional activity, students will review the steps necessary in testing a hypothesis including the types of reasoning and variables involved. This instructional activity has 6 terms in a crossword puzzle...
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Deductive Reasoning
In this deductive reasoning activity, 10th graders solve 6 various problems applying deductive reasoning to each. First, they determine if a valid conclusion can be reached from the 2 true statements using the Law of Detachment or the...
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Deductive Reasoning
In this deductive reasoning learning exercise, students solve ten different problems by applying deductive reasoning to each one. First, they determine if a valid conclusion can be reached from each of the 2 true statements given using...
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With Detective Fiction in the Urban Classroom
Students listen to a verbal explanation of the function of deductive reasoning and problem solving. They read one of Donald Sobol's 'Two-Minute Mysteries' and complete a worksheet requiring them to write out the information which is...
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Up, Up and Away with the Scientific Method
Learners utilize the scientific method to design a way for a balloon to be suspended between the floor and the ceiling.
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Idioms
Young scholars explore the use of common idioms and deduce the correct meanings of idioms.
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Archaeological "Dig"
Students examine a mummy covered in volcanic ash and deduce facts about the mummy. They deduce how archaeologists are able to learn so much from the remains of those from earlier civilizations.