Description
This handy book presents logical fallacies with easy to understand language and engaging illustrated examples. It’s the perfect reference guide for families! What IS a logical fallacy? Simply put, it’s an error (innocent or not) in reasoning. Learning to identify and avoid logical pitfalls is an important part of thinking and communicating well.
Hand drawn ink and digital illustrations fill 34 full-color pages with intriguing creatures and characters.
24 logical fallacies are presented with bite-sized, memorable examples.
From an Amazon reviewer – Quandratic
I’m a teacher and this book makes those tricky logical fallacies super easy for kids to understand.
What I really really about “Pitfalls” is how it tells exciting stories with cool pictures to explain different logical fallacies. They keep it real and relatable, so kids can totally get what’s going on.
The book breaks down complicated stuff into bite-sized illustrations that even my most restless students find easy to grasp. The book encourages kids to question and evaluate arguments, which is majorly empowering. It gets them thinking for themselves, considering different angles, and making smart choices.
All in all, “Pitfalls” is an absolute gem of a children’s book. It takes the scary world of logical fallacies and makes it totally cool and exciting. It’s my secret weapon in the classroom, helping my students become logical thinking masters. Parents, teachers, anyone looking to blow kids’ minds with logical awesomeness, this book is a must-have.
The second book which we recommend for learning logical fallacies:
The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning (Kindle available)
This has been the best-selling book for teaching logical fallacies and introduction to logic for over 15 years.
What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.
“A cloud is 90 percent water. A watermelon is 90 percent water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon.”
This is an easy book for learning to spot common errors in reasoning.
Fun to use – learn skills you can use right away.
Includes The Fallacy Detective Game.
Exercises with answers.
From an Amazon reviewer: Gingermom
Using it as curriculum for one of our co-op homeschool classes. Wow, this is so much fun and we are learning so much, it makes it a breeze to class prep and the kids love it.
Using it in a class with 11-16 y.o
The third book:
This book has been the best selling text for teaching critical thinking skills and introduction to logic for over 20 years.
It is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools we give you in this book to solve thinking problems.
– When it is dumb to argue
– Using the scientific method
– Five rules of brainstorming
– Who has a reason to lie?
– How to analyze opposing viewpoints
– How to analyze evidence and sources
– How to list reasons why you believe something
From an Amazon reviewer: Whitney Bixler
This book has exceeded our expectations! It has great lessons, that are easy to understand, and the humor is great! My daughter and I have a fantastic time reading it together, discussing the lessons, and laughing at the hilarious examples. Laughter while learning makes things so much better! We read this with a logical fallacies book and pick out which fallacies are being used in some of the examples, as well. There are a lot of layers to the chapters, and if you have a good understanding of debate, it really gives great examples to expand upon. Buy this! It’s our favorite school book! I included one of the examples that had my daughter and I crying laughing and making cat train sound effects!
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