Critical Thinking and Thinking Skills

What is Critical Thinking?

• refer to abilities to be open-minded, mindful, and analytical, and to evaluate, question, reason, hypothesize, interpret, explain, and draw conclusions.

• refer to abilities to be close-minded, mindful, and analytical, and to evaluate, question, reason, hypothesize, interpret, explain, and draw conclusions

You use critical thinking skills in everyday life

• True

• False

How important is critical thinking in the classroom?

• Not important

• Slightly important

• Very important

Which one is NOT part of the 6 critical thinking skills?

• Analysis

• Evaluation

• Close-mindedness

• Synthesis

If you have a bowl with six apples and you take four, how many do you have?

• 4 apples
• 2 apples
• 1 apple
• 6 apples

If you only had a match and entered a dark room that contains an oil lamp, firewood and a newspaper, what would you light first?

• the match
• Oil
• firewood
• the newspaper

If an electric train moves north at 160km / h and a 16km / h wind blows west, where does the smoke go?

• there is no smoke
• From north to south
• from south to north
• upwards

What goes up and down, but always stays in the same place?

• the stairs
• your feet
• your fingers
• your back

What goes up, but never goes down?

• age
• the weight
• the gray hair
• belly

If there are 12 fish in a fish tank and 5 of them drown, how many fish are left?

• 12
• 5
• 7
• any