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Critical Thinking

It is critical that the next generation of Catholics will be able to think and reason effectively; knowledge and faith will not be enough! Ensure that your children will be able to spot false arguments, refute errors, construct logical counter proposals and defend their faith and morals.

Mind Benders Thinking Skills

Students examine each clue, analyze obvious and not-so obvious information to make logical connections between people, places and things. Step-by-step problem-solving strategies and detailed answers included. Improves reading comprehension  organization, deductive reasoning and information processing skills. Helps student to handle real-life problems. Series from grades K-8 in 12 vols.

Warm-up (K-2)

Book A1  (Gr. 1)

Book A2 (Gr. 2)

Book A3 (Gr. 3)

Book A4 (Gr. 4)

Book B1  (Gr. 5)

Book B2 (Gr. 6)

Book B3 (Gr. 6-7)

Book B4 (Gr. 7)

Book C1  (Gr. 7-8)

Book C2 (Gr. 8)

Book C3 (Gr. 8)

 

any 1 book

$14.95 ea


Analogies: Concept Connections

Consumable workbooks that teach word relationships. (e.g. tooth is to teeth as goose is to _____)The ability to recognize, complete and generate analogies is a major element of critical thinking. Ideal preparation for logic courses, standardized tests and assessments. Grade 1-6. Please specify grade level.

Workbooks A,B,C,D,E,F $9.95 ea
Answer Keys $6.95 ea

Analogies (EPS)

These Analogies books follow the ones above. They are designed for Grades 7-12. Will sharpen reasoning skills and logic abilities required on standardized tests. Laura Berquist uses them in the Mother of Divine Grace (MODG) school. Please specify grade level.

Analogies 1 (Gr. 7-8)

Answer Key

Set

 

$12.95 ea

$7.95 ea

$18.95 ea

 

Analogies 2 (Gr. 9-10)

Answer Key

Set

 

$12.95 ea

 

 

 

Analogies 3 (Gr. 11-12)

Answer Key

Set

 

$12.95 ea

 

 

 


Reading for Young Catholics - Thinking Skills (Seton)

New consumable workbooks by Seton Press. Contain stories of the saints with exercises to develop thinking skills: speech, compound words, synonyms, understanding context, word classification, chronology, analogies. Grades 4, 5 & 6.

$17.95 ea


Traditional Logic

Written for the parent or teacher with no background in logic. Two one-semester logic programs, will train your child to think. A complete course covers the 3 steps involved in “knowing” something, the two ways we can know it and the three ways we use words to refer to things. Also covers the 7 rules for validity and the 29 valid argument forms for both simple & complex arguments. Based on methods devised by Christian doctors of learning including Aquinas and Augustine; others such as C.S. Lewis, Plato, Tertullian and from The Bible.

Set 1 (text & key)

Set 2 (text & key)

$45.95 set

$46.95 set

Teaching Videos or DVDs for set 1 or 2

$66.95 ea


Classical Rhetoric

The only "classroom ready" rhetoric course available for teachers and parents. Martin Cothran designed this course after teaching it for several years in his classical school. Save hundreds of research hours preparing materials to teach Aristotle. For Gr. 9-10.

Set (Text & Ans. key)

$59.95 ea


Material Logic  !!New!!

Whether you want a follow-on course to Memoria Press’s popular Traditional Logic program, or simply an introductory thinking skills course for high school grades, this new addition to Memoria Press’s widely acclaimed Classical Trivium Core Series is a valuable tool in teaching your student to think. Like all the books in Memoria Press's "Classical Trivium Core Series," it is designed to make classical Christian learning accessible to all members of the Christian education community, at home and in the classroom.

Text 1

Ans. Key 1

Set 1 (text & key)

Text 2

Ans. Key 2

Set 2 (text & key)

$41.95 ea

$3.50 ea

$45.95 set

$42.95 ea

$3.50 ea

$46.95 set


Right and Reason

Here is a college level book on Ethics and Morality. Really Catholic thinking. Could be used as a text to home school or in a Catholic college.

$34.95 ea

Ask about our other resources to support thinking, logic and reason.

Our Publications

We carry books from:

SETON PRESS

LEPANTO PRESS

Roman Catholic Books

and many others

 

 

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