The AProS project: Teaching logic to business and engineering students

Abstract

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. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.