Think Outside The Box. 8Questions to test your Critical Thinking
Authored by Sidy Toure
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This quiz focuses on critical thinking and logical reasoning through puzzles and brain teasers that require students to analyze problems carefully and avoid common misconceptions. The content is appropriate for grades 9-12, as it demands higher-order thinking skills including logical deduction, careful reading comprehension, and the ability to identify misleading information or assumptions. Students need strong analytical reasoning abilities to parse the precise wording of each question, recognize when obvious answers might be incorrect, and apply mathematical logic concepts like the pigeonhole principle. The problems assess students' capacity to think systematically, question their initial assumptions, and work through multi-step reasoning processes while avoiding cognitive traps that lead to hasty conclusions. Created by Sidy Toure, a Special Education teacher in the US who teaches grades 13-14. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for developing metacognitive skills and can be effectively used as a warm-up activity to engage students in analytical thinking, as practice for standardized test reasoning sections, or as a formative assessment to gauge students' problem-solving approaches. The quiz works particularly well for review sessions where students can discuss their reasoning processes and learn from different problem-solving strategies. Teachers can use this as homework to encourage independent critical thinking or as a collaborative classroom activity where students debate solutions and explain their logic. The content aligns with Common Core Mathematical Practices MP1 (Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them) and MP3 (Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others), while also supporting English Language Arts standards for reading comprehension and logical reasoning.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Imagine you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place. What place would you be in?
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Answer explanation
You'd think you'd be in 1st, but there's still the 1st place person you have to pass!
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A father has seven sons, and each son has one sister. How many children does the father have?
7
8
14
15
Answer explanation
All of the seven sons have the same sister!
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
There are three sorts of apples in a basket. How many apples have to be taken from the basket, without looking, to be sure that there are at least 2 apples of the same sort?
10
8
4
3
Answer explanation
You could pick each of the three different kinds on your first three picks, but with the fourth you know there will be a pair somewhere.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A farmer had 12 sheep and 3 cows. All of the animals except 9 sheep died. How many animals did he have left in his farm?
2 cows
5 cows and 1 sheep
None
9 Sheep
Answer explanation
All the animals except 9 sheep died. It says so right in the question!
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
A tree is 20 meters tall. An ant is climbing it. Every day the ant climbs 5 meters, and each night it descends 4 meters. In how many days will the ant reach the top of the tree?
16
13
20
10
Answer explanation
Each day he's only netting 1 meter, but after 15 days he's 15 meters high and then on the 16th day he reaches the top without sliding back down.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Take two apples from three apples and what do you have?
No apple
1 Apple
2 Apples
Three Apples
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
10% of all the people living in a certain town in Georgia have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone book, on average, how many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?
15%
10%
35%
0%
Answer explanation
If they're in the phone book, then they wouldn't have unlisted numbers!
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