[T-Bird45]

Critical thinking skills cannot be built on a sand foundation where successful approximation at correct spelling is a satisfactory result and math problems become an exercise in breaking down the formula so it can be solved on the fingers rather than knowing math FACTS while applying the correct order of operations. Critical thinking allows you to use established facts to make sense of the world around you, not to create some alternate universe of unicorns pooping rainbow skittles across the sky.

[knarf]

Please forgive me ... but I liked your reply so much, I broke it into digestible pieces .. for me;

Critical thinking skills cannot be built on a sand foundation

where successful approximation at correct spelling is a satisfactory result

and math problems become an exercise in breaking down the formula

so it can be solved on the fingers

rather than knowing math FACTS

while applying the correct order of operations.

Critical thinking allows you to use established facts

to make sense of the world around you,

not to create some alternate universe of unicorns pooping rainbow skittles across the sky.