Everyone's always talking about critical and creative thinking- but what is it? How is it different than normal thinking? Did you know that the average adult makes approximately 35,000 decisions per day, and a young child makes 3,000 decisions per day. So most people are making somewhere between 3000 and 35000 decisions each day. That's a lot of decisions! Some of those decisions may be small, like whether to brush your teeth first or wash your face. But other decisions are much bigger and may take more of your mental energy. The way we think through those big decisions is by using critical and creative thinking skills. Here's an example: Your teacher gives you a project with a due date in two weeks. She has given you a rubric so you know the parameters, but she has left some decisions up to you. You may have to think about what supplies to get, what is the next step, where to find your information, how to present the information, and all kinds of other decisions you don't even realize you are making. Sometimes, we have to make decisions that may affect our future. For instance, which courses to take in high school, or where to go to college. These decisions are hard and take higher levels of thinking and planning than smaller decisions. So if we talk so much about it, how do we do it? Today's TED-Ed lesson explains 5 tips for improving your critical thinking skills. Watch the video, and then interact with the lesson on TED-Ed!
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Princeton GATE students celebrate Pi Day by learning to identify Pi- an enigmatic and valuable number. We explore occupations which use Pi, including navigation, signal processing and global positioning. Next, we have some fun with its infinity. The photos show 3rd and 4th graders reciting Pi to the greatest number possible in a light-hearted competition. The children appear to be having fun with Pi, and they aren't even calculating circumferences yet! Read what Morgan, a 4th grade GATE student and winner of our Pi Day Competition (reciting 22 digits) has to say about Pi Day:
"I like Pi tremendously because it is a concept that is very easy to master if you take time. I learned that if you take your time to study Pi you can easily master it. I like GATE because it makes middle and high school concepts seem easy and prepares us for middle school, high school and college." Thank you so much to GATE teacher, Timothy Hogan, for teaching our elementary students all about Pi in honor of Pi Day and for sharing stories from the classroom! |
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