Adopt critical thinking for best results of problem-solving and decision-making
CRITICAL Thinking, according to Peter A. Facione, is a mode of thinking about any subject, content, or problem in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it.
It is a type of self-directed, selfdisciplined, self-monitored, and selfcorrective thinking.
It entails effective communication and problem-solving abilities, as well as a commitment to overcome one’s native egocentrism and sociocentrism. It can be learned, assessed, and taught.
The indicators of critical thinking involve behaviour that seeks meaningful, clear, consistent, logical, precise, accurate, justified, relevant, and true judgement in everything.
It helps avoid emotional reasoning as it evaluates the degree of truth or falsity of things before making a decision.
In other words, critical thinking looks for a variety of options to solve a problem with good reasoning and high judgement skills. It respects clarity and precision by evaluating the logic, validity, and the relevance of data.
A critical thinker will process information with a non-biased mindset from multiple sources to figure out the best possibility to solve a problem or make a decision.
Critical thinking can be nurtured through a learning environment that constantly provides exposures on the challenges and application practices.
The perfect balance between arithmetic operations and critical thinking skills can be found in Eye Level Math programme.
It consists of basic Thinking Math lessons help students develop a basic foundation in math, including an understanding of numbers, arithmetic, equation, etc. Critical Thinking Math lessons help student progress beyond foundational skills to learn more advanced concepts and applications.
It is all about enhancing the student’s problem solving capability, analytical skill and logical sense.
Although there is only one correct answer to math questions, there are many ways to get to that answer.
With Eye Level Critical Thinking Math, problem solving and analytical skills will be developed through exploring these different working solutions.
Students will also learn to identify the best solution and the one that suits his/her own strengths of thinking; to inquire information, evaluate arguments and make decision effectively; and the effective ways of applying their mathematical knowledge to various aspects of everyday life, hence realising the dynamism of the usage of mathematics in a practical way.