Getting started in logic at the earliest opportunity is the answer. While other books adopt a formal approach, using abstractions and arcane jargon, this book explains logical reasoning in simple and intuitive ways through its breezy writing style and with clipart lightening the mood.
Logic for Kids is intended to help parents take charge of the intellectual development of their children in a critical area: the acquisition of skills related to logical reasoning. Many other books, including math and science books, fail to treat logic as a subject in its own right, provide no special instruction, and expect students to figure out logic on their own. Without the corrective measures explained in this book, students will be ill-prepared to cope with increasing intellectual demands as they progress from grade to grade. These demands will become greater and more varied in college and once they embark on a professional career. Getting started in logic at the earliest opportunity is the answer.
1. Hi, Kids!
2. What This Book Is About
3. Why Therefore Is Important
4. Vocabulary
5. Friends Well Play Fun Games With
6. Switchy, Gridley, Lefty, Righty, Dotty
7. Curly, Ampy, Wedgy
8. Pointy, Triply
9. Super Pointy, Dashy
10. Forms
11. Our Special Tracks
12. Proving Tracks Are Safe
13. Proving Tracks Are Unsafe
14. Matching Safe Tracks
15. Matching Unsafe Tracks
16. Trips on Safe Dashy Tracks
17. More Trips on Safe Dashy Tracks
18. Trips on Safe Triply Tracks
19. Trips in Science
20. Trips in Math
21. Three New Safe Tracks
22. Bye, Kids!
Arnold Cusmariu has a PhD in philosophy from Brown University, has taught logic and has published original work in logic. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency after academia, working as an analyst and retiring in 2010. Also a sculptor, his preferred medium is stone.