"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side," said GK Chesterton. "I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side." Arguments are attempts to persuade by ...

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The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

Arguments are attempts to persuade by providing reasons (or premises) in support of a particular claim (or conclusion). There are two broad kinds of argument: deductive and inductive. In a deductive ...