DIGITAL - Cambridge AS & A Level Thinking Skills Elevate Digital Teacher's Resource

Cambridge International AS & A Level Thinking Skills Cambridge Elevate Digital Teacher's Resource

Author/s: Ruth Matthews

This series helps students and teachers following the Cambridge AS & A Level Thinking Skills syllabus (9694) for examination from 2020.

Not sure where to start with teaching a skills-based course?

With lesson ideas, worksheets and a scheme of work, this Cambridge Elevate teacher’s resource helps you save time planning and preparing lessons.

As well as helping you to teach thinking skills with confidence, the digital resource also includes answers to the coursebook questions for quick and easy marking.

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• Save time on preparation and planning with a sample scheme of work.

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Contents:

How to Use This Resource
Resource Index
Introduction
Scheme of Work

Section 1: Problem Solving

1. What do we mean by a 'problem'?
2. Selecting and using information
3. Processing data
4. Working with models
5. Solving problems by searching
6. Finding methods of solution
7. Trends in data
8. Transforming data
9. Summarised Data
10. Identifying features of a model
11. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
12. Changing the scenario of a problem

Section 2: Critical Thinking

1. An introduction to critical thinking
2. Claims, statements, and assertions
3. Assessing claims
4. Grounds, reasons, and evidence
5. Evaluating evidence: a case study
6. Statistical evidence
7. Uses of evidence: inference and explanation
8. Identifying argument
9. Analysing argument
10. Interpretation
11. Assumptions
12. Evaluating argument
13. Applying logic
14. Longer texts
15. Multiple sources

Answers
Acknowledgements.