Institute for New Economic Thinking
John Kay: A Call for Eclecticism (3/5)
In part three of this INET interview, John Kay calls for greater eclecticism in the methods of economic research. Inductive reasoning can, and should be, an important part of economics, as evidenced by Ken Rogoff's recent study of the...
CK-12 Foundation
Inductive Reasoning: Lesson
Let's get specific about the general conclusion. The video, a portion of an extensive geometry playlist, introduces inductive reasoning. Using patterns, the resource explains how inductive reasoning goes from the specific to general.
Brightstorm
Inductive Reasoning
Learners use inductive reasoning every day but might not realize it. An instructive video demonstrates that the process of inductive reasoning means searching for and identifying patterns. The instructor begins with numeric...
Khan Academy
Vi and Sal Talk About the Mysteries of Benford's Law, Logarithms, Algebra II
Challenge your students to explain why this interesting mathematical law works! Sal, accompanied by Vi Hart, demonstrates BenfordÕs Law. They challenge the listeners to see if they can intuitively explain why this law fairly accurately...
Khan Academy
Vi and Sal Talk About the Mysteries of Benford's Law, Logarithms, Algebra II
Challenge your students to explain why this interesting mathematical law works! Sal, accompanied by Vi Hart, demonstrates BenfordÕs Law. They challenge the listeners to see if they can give an intuitive reason why this law fairly...
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: What Is Inductive Reasoning?
Inductive reasoning is observing data and patterns to make predictions. Watch this tutorial to learn about inductive reasoning. [3:48]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Inductive Reasoning 1
This video gives an example of using inductive reasoning to write an expression to represent the nth term of a linear pattern.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Inductive Reasoning 1
Video gives an example of using inductive reasoning to write an expression to represent the nth term of a linear pattern. [2:06]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Inductive Patterns
Video example showing two ways to write an expression to represent the number of toothpicks in the nth figure of a linear pattern and using the expression to determine the number of toothpicks in the 50th figure.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Inductive Patterns
Video example showing two ways to write an expression to represent the number of toothpicks in the nth figure of a linear pattern and using the expression to determine the number of toothpicks in the 50th figure. [6:34]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Epistemology: Sleeping Beauty
In this video, Michael introduces the Sleeping Beauty problem. This is a problem in formal epistemology about how to correctly assign probabilities to an odd scenario in which we flip a coin and, depending on the outcome, wake Sleeping...