Who is the Culprit?

Webercise
Using the given website, answer the following questions:
http://fallibleideas.com/reason
1. What is reasoning?

2. What is reasoning about? What is it not about?

3. Why is reasoning important?

4. What does reasoning try to prevent?

For a fun activity on reasoning, follow the following link. See how far you can go, host
fast, and how accurate you can be. Provide a screen shot of one of your runs.
http://www.pomindcake.com/game/triplets

Top score:
Top Accuracy:
Highest Level:

Use the following to answer these questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy

1. What is a Fallacy?

2. Are fallacies good or bad? Why?

Use the following to answer this question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

List the 2 general categories of fallacies and 3 different types of fallacies under each
category.

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The following gives you a list of different types of reasoning:
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/types_reasoning/types_reasoning.htm
List some of the types and what that type of reasoning does or is. Which one(s) would you
prefer? Why?

Reasoning and arguing doesnt happen in geometry only. The following link is an activity
that shows what reasoning in algebra looks like:
http://www.mathplayground.com/algebraic_reasoning.html
Provide a screen shot as proof that you have visited the site and looked something up.