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The paper discusses the use of the tools provided by the course Logic & Proofs, of the Open Learning Initiative (Carnegie Mellon University), for teaching Logic to freshmen students of Business Administration and Engineering at Francisco Marroquín University (Guatemala) over a period of two years. It is argued that the distinctive focus of the course—“strategic argumentation”—needs to be adapted to the students specific interests in order to be relevant to their education. Polya’s “heuristic” approach to problem-solving is proposed as a complement to the course.
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Polanco, M. (2011). The AProS Project: Teaching Logic to Business and Engineering Students. In: Blackburn, P., van Ditmarsch, H., Manzano, M., Soler-Toscano, F. (eds) Tools for Teaching Logic. TICTTL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21350-2_23
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