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Why?Why?Why?AskingHighLevelQuestionstoPromoteCriticalandCreative

Thinking

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QuestioningstrategiesforinductionfromHildaTabaFrom"ThinkingInductively,"inJoyceandWeil,ModelsofTeaching,Chapter10,150-152.

TABLE10.1CONCEPTFORMATION

OvertActivity CovertMentalOperations ElicitingQuestions1. Enumeration,listing Differentiation(identifying

separateitems)Whatdoyousee?hear?note?

2.Grouping Identifyingcommonproperties,abstracting

Whatbelongstogether?Onwhatcriterion?

3.Labeling,categorizing Determiningthehierarchicalorderofthings(super-andsubordination)

Howwouldyoucallthesegroups?Whatbelongstowhat?

Source:HildaTaba,Teacher'sHandbookforElementarySocialStudies(Reading,Mass.:Addison-WesleyPublishingCo.,Inc.,1967)p.92.

TABLE10.2INTERPRETATIONOFDATA

OvertActivity CovertMentalOperations ElicitingQuestions1.Identifyingcriticalrelationships

Differentiating Whatdidyounotice?see?find?

2.Exploringrelationships RelatingcategoriestoeachotherDeterminingcause-and-effectrelationships

Whydidthishappen?

3.Makinginferences GoingbeyondwhatisgivenFindingimplications,extrapolating

Whatdoesthismean?Whatpicturedoesitcreateinyourmind?Whatcouldyouconclude?

Source:HildaTaba,Teacher'sHandbookforElementarySocialStudies(Reading,Mass.:Addison-WesleyPublishingCo.,Inc.,1967)p.101.

TABLE10.3APPLICATIONOFPRINCIPLES

OvertActivity CovertMentalOperations ElicitingQuestions1.Predictingconsequences,explainingunfamiliarphenomena,hypothesizing

Analyzingthenatureoftheproblemorsituation,retrieving

relevantknowledge

Whatwouldhappenif...?

2.Explainingand/orsupportingthepredictionsandhypotheses

Determiningthecausallinksleadingtopredictionorhypothesis

Whydoyouthinkthiswouldhappen?

3.Verifyingtheprediction Usinglogicalprinciplesorfactualknowledgetodeterminenecessary

andsufficientconditions

Whatwouldittakeforthistobegenerallytrueorprobablytrue?

Source:HildaTaba,Teacher'sHandbookforElementarySocialStudies(Reading,Mass.:Addison-WesleyPublishingCo.,Inc.,1967)p.109.

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Compareit!Whatisitsimilarto?Whatisitdifferentfrom?

Significance

Isthisthemostimportantproblemtoconsider?Whichofthesefactsismost

important?

Logic

Doesthisallmakesensetogether?Doeswhatyousayfollowfromevidence?

FairnessDoIhaveanyvestedinterestinthisissue?AmIrepresentingothersviewpoints?

Accuracy

Howcouldwecheckonthat?Howcouldweverifyortest

that?Howcouldwefindoutifthatis

true?

Precision

Couldyoubemorespecific?Couldyougivememore

details?Couldyoubemoreexact?

CriticalThinkingCubeVersion1

ClarityCouldyouelaboratefurther?Couldyougivemeanexample?Couldyouillustratewhatyoumean?

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Compareit!Whatisitsimilarto?Whatisitdifferentfrom?

Clarity Couldyouelaboratefurther?Couldyougivemeanexample?Couldyouillustratewhatyoumean?

Precision

Couldyoubemorespecific?Couldyougivememore

details?Couldyoubemoreexact?

RelevanceHowdoesthisrelatetotheproblem?Howdoesthatbearonthequestion?Howdoesthathelpuswiththeissue?

Breadth

Doweneedtolookathisfromanother

perspective?Doweneedtoconsideranotherpointofview?Doweneedtolookatthisin

otherways?

CriticalThinkingCubeVersion2

AccuracyHowcouldwecheckonthat?Howcouldwefindoutifthatistrue?Howcouldweverifyortestthat?

DepthWhatfactorsmakethisadifficultproblem?Whataresomeofthecomplexitiesofthisquestion?Whataresomedifficulties?

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Compareit!Whatisitsimilarto?Whatisitdifferentfrom?

DescribeIt!Lookattheobjectcloselyanduseallyoursensestodescribeit.Useasmanyadjectivesasyoucan!

CreativeThinkingCube QuestionIt!

Whatdoyouwanttoknowabouttheobject?

Compareit!Whatisitsimilarto?Whatisitdifferentfrom?

Applyit!Whatcandowithit?Howcouldtheobjectbeused?

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MathQuestionstouseforHomeworkHelp

Whenyourchildisstuck,ask….

• Whatdoyouknowthatisnotstatedintheproblem?• Whatfactsdoyouhave?• Howdidyoutacklesimilarproblems?• Couldyoutryitwithsimplernumbers?Fewernumbers?

Usinganumberline?• Wouldithelptocreateadiagram?Makeatable?Drawapicture?

Topromoteproblemsolving,ask……

• Whatdoyouneedtofindout?• Whatstrategiesareyougoingtouse?

Tomakeconnectionsamongideas,ask…

• Whatideashaveyoulearnedbeforethatwereusefulinsolvingthisproblem?Toencouragereflection,ask…

• Doesyouranswerseemreasonable?Whyorwhynot?• Canyoudescribeyourmethodtome?• Canyouexplainwhyitworks?

Tobuildconfidenceandrelyontheirownunderstanding,ask….

• Whyisthattrue?• Howdidyoureachthatconclusion?• Canyoumakeamodeltoshowthat?

Tohelpmakesenseofmathandreasonmathematically,ask…

• Canyouconvincetherestofusthatyouranswermakessense?• Canyoupredictthenextone?Whataboutthelastone?

• Howwouldyouprovethat?Tocheckprogress,ask…

• Canyouexplainwhatyouhavedonesofar?

• Whatelseistheretodo?• Whydidyoudecidetousethis

method?• Canyouthinkofanothermethodthat

mighthaveworked?• Isthereamoreefficientstrategy?

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