Activity . Problem Anagrams : Rearrange the letters to form a word. (You can also construct some similar words) NAGMARA BOLMPER SLEVO STGNIH TOLUSONI Problem Joining dots : Without lifting your pencil from the paper, connect all nine dots by drawing four straight lines. Problem Try out the ‘water in three bottles’ activity with your friend.
There are three bottles, A, B, and C. Bottle A can hold ml., B can hold ml., and C can hold ml. The task for your friend is to get ml of water with the help of these three bottles. There are six more problems like this.
These seven problems are given below. Problems The required The capacity of the quantity bottles in ml. A B C . .
. (Answers are given at the end of the chapter) conclude that the person had left his bag in the train. One mistake you would probably make here is jumping to a conclusion without knowing all possible facts. From the above discussion we can conclude that reasoning is the process of gathering and analysing information to arrive at conclusions.
In this sense, reasoning is also a form of problem solving. The goal is to determine what conclusion can be drawn from certain given information. Most cases of scientific reasoning are inductive in nature. Scientists and even lay persons consider a number of instances and try to determine what general rule covers them all.
Think of yourself using your knowledge of problem solving steps discussed earlier in planning for a play, or conducting a project. Your inductive reasoning is being applied here. Analogy is another form of reasoning which involves four parts, A is to B as C is to D with the relation between the first two parts being the same as the relation between the last two. For example, water is to fish as