How can students improve their logical thinking and argumentation skills?

Learn more math. Mathematics is the most logical science. Jin Canrong has a point of view that people who can't learn mathematics well, don't talk about logic, and I deeply agree with this.

For the average person, you can do more problems such as plane geometry, after all, it doesn't require much investment. Participate in debates, be brave enough to face others' rebuttals to you, and pay attention to find your own logical errors in others' rebuttals to you, and correct them, so that you can continue to improve. This process is also painful, but martial arts masters are beaten up.

According to people around me, I am more like a person born in science and engineering, who is too calm, so I have been reading some literary works to increase my humanistic literacy recently. Quite simply, strengthen the inputs and outputs. The so-called input is to enhance the reading.

Human thinking is very limited, but reading can make you think broadly. When thinking about a problem, you can think about all aspects of the problem. Even if you don't think about it, reading adds a lot of experience to you.

For example, if you often go to Zhihu, you can learn a lot of industry information and unpopular knowledge that you don't know before.

This thing is very difficult to cultivate, of course it can be cultivated, but it is very difficult. The ability to think backwards, backwards, and think about it from the opposite point of view, from the reverse point of view, will be of great help to the cultivation of this kind of logical thinking. In addition, it is necessary to observe more phenomena in life, do not blindly follow the conclusions given by others, try to explain them yourself, and discover the principles and laws behind them.

Telling someone what the answer is, and then breaking it down into points to interpret the answer will make the question clear at a glance and let the reader know what your logic is like. If you want to exercise your thinking skills, you might as well learn from the powerful person around you, study how he usually thinks about problems, analyzes problems, and organizes conclusions. With the help of your ears and eyes, you can gradually develop deep thinking and logical ability.

Thinking training is the use of thinking methods to operate thinking models and take detours. Just like on the catwalk, you must take a catwalk, and you must abide by the rules of thinking methods. This is deliberate training and does not require flexibility.

To be truly flexible, you must be proficient to a certain extent, and finally directly implement it into the subconscious, then it will be flexible, and it will become an automatic use of thinking experience to go straight.

I don't know if there is such an activity as a debate tournament in high school, if there is, it is recommended to participate, it doesn't matter if you don't, it's good to take a look at the ** information of the debate. Don't watch the excitement when watching **, carefully analyze the arguments and arguments of both sides, analyze their logical structure, and listen carefully to the causal relationship between their words.

Personally, I like to use the method of mind mapping in daily work and study, which can integrate the thinking characteristics of the left brain and the right brain, make the thinking more divergent, and show the theme and the key words of each branch, so that people can intuitively see the "overall situation".

Develop critical thinking.

There are two main paths to competence:

The first is curriculum training, including specialized critical thinking courses or regular courses that implement the spirit of critical thinking. At present, there are not too many colleges and universities in China that offer specialized critical thinking courses, and more of them are through mathematics and science courses or logic.

etc. The second is self-training, through the daily life and social practice of college students.

First, at the attitude level, choose critical thinking concepts and attitudes. In daily life, the lack of critical thinking and rational skepticism and reflective attitudes are important sources of our unsatisfactory thinking and argumentation.

If you think you're born a fool, or that your sanity has developed to the point where you don't need to improve, you're not going to be a good critical thinker.

To cultivate good thinking qualities and improve critical thinking skills, we must start by choosing the concepts and attitudes of critical thinking.

Second, at the level of knowledge, master the principled knowledge of critical thinking. Developing and training critical thinking skills requires mastery of a set of critical criteria for evaluating arguments, including criteria for assessing the appropriateness of the questions asked, the justification of the reasons given, and the strength of the reasoning made.

An accurate understanding of an argument requires a grasp of the logic associated with statements, questions, concepts, and reasoning, and a proper evaluation of an argument requires not only a set of critical criteria for evaluating the quality of an argument, but also knowledge of the fallacies of the argument.

Third, at the practical level, adhere to long-term training and practical application. Generally speaking, the training of any kind of ability is inseparable from long-term training, and critical thinking ability is no exception.

Using the logical theories we have learned to talk about how to cultivate and enhance the ability of critical thinking, of course, we must apply them to practice and look at things with dialectical thinking.

Cultivating logical thinking ability refers to cultivating students' judgment ability, logical reasoning ability, mathematical modeling ability and analytical ability of mathematical problems. Only by daring to conjecture and hypothetizing can students be inspired to think about problems from multiple angles and levels, and to promote their thinking to break the routine and produce new ideas, new concepts and new theories, which has a significant impact and far-reaching significance on cultivating students' logical thinking ability.

Logical thinking ability refers to the ability to think correctly and reasonably, that is, the comprehensive ability to observe, analyze, judge, reason, etc., and is the ability to use scientific logical methods to express one's thinking process accurately and methodically. It is one of the basic mathematical abilities and the core of mathematical qualities. To cultivate logical thinking ability, mainly through the learning of knowledge itself, and this is the most important way, in mathematics teaching, I think students' logical thinking ability mainly refers to:

Students' judgment ability, logical reasoning ability, mathematical modeling ability and analytical ability to mathematical problems, etc. In the process of teaching, I have always paid attention to cultivating these abilities in students, so that they realize that mathematics lessons are not only about learning mathematical knowledge, but also about exercising certain abilities.

The improvement of logical thinking skills can be improved by doing math problems, physics problems, etc., or by playing chess or using some thinking tools.

Why can I improve my logical thinking skills by doing math and physics problems? Because in the process of doing problems, the brain is working, and can deepen the understanding of mathematical formulas and principles, and doing more problems is the key to improving mathematics performance, to do a variety of question types, each mathematics problem will examine students a knowledge point, some may also examine several knowledge points. The basis for the improvement of logical thinking ability is that the brain is smart and flexible, if the brain is slow to respond, it is impossible to improve logical thinking ability, such as the mind map training method in JINT whole brain speed reading memory training is the first to achieve the strengthening of image thinking, many problems can be directly expressed and solved in the form of images in the mind, thinking speed is fast and sensitive, and creativity is strong.

In addition, the improvement of logical thinking ability is also inseparable from the supplement of brain nutrition, do you know that the brain needs DHA? This substance is a major component of the growth and maintenance of nervous system cells, commonly known as brain**, and is one of the important substances for the development and growth of the human brain. In addition, this substance is difficult for the human body to synthesize on its own, and it needs to be ingested by eating more legumes, fish and nuts, because these substances are rich in DHA.