This lesson focuses on distinguishing between inductive and deductive reasoning. Sometimes it's difficult to separate these two types of reasoning because we often use them together; drawing conclusions in inductive reasoning is likely...

This list explains the top five reasons that staying in school can provide many advantages in life.

Presented is the complete text of Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason written in 1794.

The original text of Thomas Paine's work,"Age of Reason," written in 1794, describing the principles of enlightened government and society.

Given conjectures about quadrilaterals, the student will use deductive reasoning and counter examples to prove or disprove the conjectures.

Given conjectures about circles, the student will use deductive reasoning and counterexamples to prove or disprove the conjectures.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept introduces students to inductive reasoning and provides many examples of inductive reasoning.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find out about how people use scientific reasoning to think scientifically. Included in the assignment is a four minute video and review questions.

Practice telling whether or not the relationship between two quantities is proportional by reasoning about equivalent ratios. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use deductive reasoning to solve problems. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt...

Practice identifying proportional relationships from graphs.

This OFCN lesson plan offers ideas for incorporating deductive reasoning problems into the classroom.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The differences between deductive and inductive reasoning are described in this lesson.

This free encyclopedia site from Wikipedia gives a definition and examples of deductive reasoning. It also has links to related terms and topics.

An explanation and description of deductive reasoning in solving problems at this site from The Math Forum. Simple and helpful information.

Learners will understand how to use proportional reasoning in measurement problems.

The online assessment demonstrates knowledge of concepts utilized in Geometry. The multiple choice questions test students on mathematical reasoning and proof.

This report from the Stanford History Education Group describes the conclusions of their work in field testing a set of assessments of civic online reasoning by young people from the middle school to the college level. Middle school...

Given a proportional relationship, students will be able to graph a set of data from the relationship and interpret the unit rate as the slope of the line.

Students will practice identifying the converse, inverse, and contrapositive of conditional statements.

This Global Exchange site provides the negative view of the WTO. The article is made up of ten reasons and explanations to these reasons why there should be opposition to the WTO.

This is a PDF entitled "Distinguishing between Matters of Fact, Matters of Opinion, and Matters of Reasoned Judgement," which focuses on how to separate fact from opinion, provides examples, and offers a practice activity.

A well-designed science investigation that has students examine and graph seasonal temperature data from cities at different latitudes. They describe trends they see, and explain what they think causes these trends. They then identify...

A geometry problem for students to use their mathematical reasoning skills to explain a right triangle property.