Logical Reasoning

PT125 · S4 · Q23 Politician: The current crisis

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Politician: The current crisis in mathematics education must be overcome if we are to remain competitive in the global economy.

Given

The current crisis in mathematics RC → OC education must be overcome if we are to remain competitive in the global economy.

Alleviating this crisis requires the OC → STM employment of successful teaching methods.

No method of teaching a subject STM → SOC can succeed that does not get students to spend a significant amount of time outside of class studying that subject.

Evaluate

We have three conditionals that could chain together. It seems like a chain of requirements.

Remaining overcoming employ students competitive → crisis in → succ → spend lots in global math ed teaching of time economy methods outside class

Goal

The correct answer will probably test our understanding of that chain (like 1st thing requires 4th thing, or something like that). Incorrect answers will probably involve some illegal negations or reversals of those relationships.

23.

Which one of the following statements follows logically from the statements above?

  1. If students spend a significant

    Reversed Inference

    This reverses the inference SOC → OC of the second and third statements.

    9% picked this

  2. Correct

    The current crisis in mathematics

    Why this is right

    This follows from OC → STM the second and STM → SOC third statements. ჻ OC → SOC

    Skill tested: Must be True · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    69% picked this

  3. Few subjects are as important

    Unsupported Comparison

    A comparison of the significance of mathematics to other subjects is not supported by statements.

    1% picked this

  4. Only if we succeed in

    Reversed Inference

    This reverses the inference SOC → RC that could be made from combining all three statements.

    2% picked this

  5. Students' spending a significant amount

    Unsupported Relationship

    This suggests that the relationship is causal and that meeting a requirement of remaining competitive would actually help us to remain competitive.

    20% picked this

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