Learn what deductive reasoning is and look at examples of how to apply it.

The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the LSAT. This section reviews deductions in the "Analytic Reasoning" section.

Part of a University of Toronto website, this page defines and describes deductive and inductive reasoning in solving mathematical problems.

A chapter focused on the methods children use to seek and collect information on various topics. Why would younger children have a keener ability to use scientific reasoning than older students or adults? Explore the possibilities.

This U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission site contains general information on the topic of reasonable accommodation.

Excessive or reasonable force by police? Explore this research on law enforcement and racial conflict.

Students will examine a variety of documents that reference reasons why Americans living in the East migrated west of the Mississippi immediately before, during, and right after the Civil War. Documents cover the mining industry, new...

A simple discussion of the differences between inductive and deductive reasoning. Helpful to anyone who is having difficulty differentiating between the two.

The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the LSAT. This section provides information about how to "identify an entailment that follows logically from given statements" in the "Logical Reasoning" section.

While the technology to enable a car to complete a journey without human input (what the industry calls "level 5 autonomy") might be advancing rapidly, producing a vehicle that can do so safely and legally is another matter. This article...

Print or create worksheets to assess students' understanding of the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations.

From his politics and religious writings to "Paradise Lost", this article traces how the life and work of John Milton were guided by the principle of freedom of thought and how in doing so he challenged fundamental aspects of...

A Hawaiian kapa artist explains how she uses area and measurements as part of her art-making process in this video from the Center for Asian American Media. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video and learn how...

Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratios and unit rates.

Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of ratio concepts and creating tables and graphs.

In this video, students visit the Kentucky Horse Park where they are introduced to the question How are speed, time, and distance interrelated? The accompanying activity builds on a demonstration from the video of the length of Man o'...

The resource from Khan Academy explains how to use its study tools to prepare for the LSAT. The importance of creating an "equivalent rule" on "analytic reasoning" questions. "Minimum/Maximum" questions are also discussed.

In this lesson plan, students examine the reasons for protests by reading about the riots in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967. By using primary source documents, learn historical reasons for protesting and compare them with the situation in...

The purpose of this task is to ask learners to reason about solutions without explicitly solving them to get them to understand what it means for a number to be a solution to an equation. Aligns with A-REI.A.

In 1901 a deadly smallpox epidemic tore through the Northeast, prompting the Boston and Cambridge boards of health to order the vaccination of all residents. But some refused to get the shot, claiming the vaccine order violated their...

Discusses the life and significance of Martin Luther in a brief biography.

Introduces the method of categorical logic, as used in the deductive reasoning formalized by Aristotle. Author defines important terms very clearly and includes several good examples. A good place to start reading about logic.

Illustrated examples partnered with follow-up practice problems for interpreting proportional relationships.

In this video, students explore Depression-era post office murals and modern outdoor murals to learn how artists use proportional reasoning and measurement to create large-scale paintings. The video ends with the question, "How do...