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Many Houston ISD students are taking a new course this year, called “Art of Thinking,” that aims to teach them concepts like logic, bias and correlation.
HISD’s first-year superintendent, Mike Miles, said the class delivers much-needed lessons that will prepare kids to critically think in the workplace of the future. But some scholars, teachers and families argue students aren’t prepared for the complexity of the class.
The Houston Landing obtained a unit quiz from a sixth-grade Art of Thinking class that illustrates some of the concepts being taught. Take the quiz below to sample the lessons being taught — and see how you’d fare in the class. (The Landing was unable to obtain an answer key that explains why each answer is correct, and HISD officials declined to provide the key.)