The Critical Thinking Toolkit

#32: In Your Sights

Overview:	Starting with a problem best solved by actually envisioning the situations, participants will proceed to contemplate a work-related problem in the same fashion.
Objective:	To foster imaginative reasoning.
Supplies:	A “back-up” problem—in case some class members have seen the original sock problem before. This will suffice:
	You have six matches and must form four equal-sided triangles from them.
	When you are tutoring the “imagine” group, encourage them to think in three dimensions, not two. If they can, they will have a flat triangle and in the space above it, three intersecting matches meeting to make three additional triangles.
Time:	Approximately 20 minutes
AdvancePreparation:	If possible, arrange ...